ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,149, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Diagnosing identical circuit blocks in data streaming environment" was invented by Wu-Tung Cheng (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Manish Sharma (Wilsonville, Ore.) and Mark A. Kassab (Wilsonville, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit comprises: a plurality of identical circuit blocks, each of the plurality of identical circuit blocks comprising one or more test output ports; a first bit-combining device and a second bit-combining device for each of the one or more test output ports; a delay device for each of the one or more test output ports; and a ...