ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,344, issued on July 21, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic memory allocation in probing signal states" was invented by Alok Mistry (Hyderabad, India), Niloy Roy (Hyderabad, India), Shanish Chandra Mishra (Hyderabad, India) and Anil Kumar A V (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed methods and systems include debug circuitry registering candidate sample values in a plurality of sample periods while application circuitry is active. The candidate sample values indicate states of a plurality of candidate signals of the application circuitry. Sample values of first probed signals from each sample p...