US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 11 for "Methods and apparatus for using scan operations to protect secure assets" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,379, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus for using scan operations to protect secure assets" was invented by Prakash Narayanan (Bangalore, India) and Nikita Naresh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed to protect secure assets using scan operations. One example apparatus includes logic circuitry including a scan chain that includes data storage elements and design logic coupled to the scan chain. The example apparatus also includes data storage to store secure data. The design logic is coupled to the data storage. The example apparat...