US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on March 17 for "Scan chain control" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,386, issued on March 17, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Scan chain control" was invented by Jia Han Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Shih-Chang Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Feng-Ming Kuo (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chung-Sheng Yuan (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chung-Hsing Wang (Baoshan Township, Taiwan) and Yi-Kan Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to scan chain systems and methods for inputting repeated sequences of bits to a sequence of flip flops that include multi-bit flip flops and single bit flip flops. One example includes ...