ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,793, issued on May 12, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Tracking debug events from an autonomous module through a data pipeline" was invented by Joseph Raymond Michael Zbiciak (Alviso, Calif.) and Jason Lynn Peck (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, streaming engines and functionality are provided for identifying a debug event associated with a data element of a data stream, and performing debugging when a processor executes a software program in connection with the data stream. The debug event is tracked through a data pipeline to the processor. In an embodiment, the debug event is acted on only...