ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,151, issued on July 28, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to provide register information of semiconductor chips" was invented by J. Paul Austin Carpenter (Arlington, Texas), Kenyan Degles Burnham (Forney, Texas), Brady Charles Ramsey (Dallas), Paul Ian Strathdee Marshall (Lucas, Texas) and Daniel Lusk (Cayuga, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: accessing, by storage interface circuitry, chip information, the chip information corresponding to a semiconductor chip; removing, by at least one processor circuit, redundant information from the chip information to gener...