US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Nov. 3 for "Boundary scan for shared analog and digital pins" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,437, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Boundary scan for shared analog and digital pins" was invented by Prasanth Viswanathan Pillai (Bangalore, India), Swathi Gangasani (Bangalore, India) and Vaskar Sarkar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes a buffer configured to, when enabled: obtain an input voltage; and provide the input voltage to a first boundary cell; and a second boundary cell configured to, when the apparatus is used in analog mode and a boundary scan occurs disable the buffer."

The patent was filed on Oct. 28, 2024, under Application No. 18/929,47...