US Patent Issued to SambaNova Systems on July 14 for "Scannable memory subsystem" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,973, issued on July 14, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Scannable memory subsystem" was invented by Thomas Ziaja (Austin, Texas) and Paul Jordan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subsystem with an array of memory cells includes a scan chain with one or more chain segments of storage memory cells. Chain segments are separated by chain buffer memory cells. Memory cells of each chain segment are coupled with a sequence generator that generates a sequence of non-overlapping pulses from a pulse in a scan clock (SCLK) signal. The duration of the sequence equals at most a cycle of the SCLK signal. ...