ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,973, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MINIMA PROCESSOR OY (Oulu, Finland).

"Microelectronic circuit with dynamically adjustable coverage for in-situ timing event monitors" was invented by Markus Hiienkari (Helsinki) and Lauri Koskinen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The performance of an adaptive microelectronic circuit is at least partly configurable by selecting a value of an operating parameter. On processing paths, data inputs of register units are coupled to outputs of respective logic units for temporarily storing output values of said logic units. A plurality of timing event monitors respond to a digital value at a da...