ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,459, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Embedded pattern generator" was invented by Srinivasa Chakravarthy (Bangalore, India), Prasanth Viswanathan Pillai (Bangalore, India), Mohammed Arif (Bangalore, India) and Bhargov Bora (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes multiplexer circuitry configured to couple a communication module to at least one of a data bus input or a test signal; and embedded pattern generator (EPG) circuitry coupled to the multiplexer circuitry, the EPG circuitry including: clock divider circuitry including a plurality of clock outputs, the c...