ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,673, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Modular scan data network for high speed scan data transfer" was invented by Jais Abraham (Bangalore, India), Arvind Jain (San Diego), Rajeev Komalan Nair (Bangalore, India), Basim Mohammed Issa Shanyour (San Diego) and Madan Krishnappa (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scan testing features on a chip may include a streaming scan network (SSN) with core streaming scan hubs (CSHs). A CSH may include a parent bus interface, a child bus interface, and a streaming scan hub (SSH). A CSH may also include multiplexing logic configured to select whether the child b...