US Patent Issued to Nordic Semiconductor ASA on July 14 for "Debug-port control circuitry" (Norwegian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,127, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"Debug-port control circuitry" was invented by Bjornar Hernes (Trondheim, Norway), Berend Dekens (Trondheim, Norway), Hakon Prestegard (Trondheim, Norway) and Hannu Koivuranta (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated-circuit device comprising a non-volatile memory (NVM), a debug port, and debug-port control circuitry for controlling access to the integrated-circuit device through the debug port. The debug-port control circuitry is configured to read a first bit array and a second bit array from respective predetermined locations i...