US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 20 for "Interposer instrumentation method and apparatus" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,881, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Interposer instrumentation method and apparatus" was invented by Lee D. Whetsel (Parker, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for improving interposers to include embedded monitoring instruments for real time monitoring digital signals, analog signals, voltage signals and temperature sensors located in the interposer. An embedded monitor trigger unit controls the starting and stopping of the real time monitoring operations. The embedded monitoring instruments are accessible via an 1149.1 TAP interface on the...