ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,262, issued on May 19, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Programmable event testing" was invented by Kai Chirca (Dallas) and Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes executing software code comprising a plurality of execute packets; responsive to an execute packet of the software code being executed by a data processor core, advancing a value of a test counter register; and responsive to the value of the test counter register being equal to a terminal value, triggering an event to be handled by the software code."
The patent was filed on Sept. 30, 2022, under Applica...