US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 20 for "System state save and restore mechanism using RAM and scan chains" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,887, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"System state save and restore mechanism using RAM and scan chains" was invented by Srinivas Patil (Austin, Texas), Qing Yun Li (San Diego) and Nir Maor (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a built-in self test (BIST) mode save and restore operation. In accordance with one aspect, the disclosure includes executing a save directive for an initial state of a digital logic system in an operational mode; executing a built-in self test (BIST) sequence on the digital logic system in a built-in self test (BIST) mode; and executi...