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Lee D. Whetsel — 50 Patents in 2017

TITexas Instruments: 50 patents #1 of 1,266Top 1%
Parker, TX: #1 of 9 inventorsTop 15%
Texas: #3 of 15,389 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (2017): #197 of 506,227Top 1%
50 Patents 2017

Issued Patents 2017

Showing 26–50 of 50 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9671462 TAM, controller, selector, scan router, external data and control buses 2017-06-06
9671464 Bypass register separately controlled as internal scan circuit by TAP 2017-06-06
9671463 TDI, TCK, TMS, TDO, first, second, third gating routing circuit 2017-06-06
9671426 Response collector circuitry coupled with through silicon via and tap 2017-06-06
9645198 Full/reduced pin JTAG interface shadow protocol detection, command, address circuits 2017-05-09
9638753 Tap clock and enable control of scan register, flip-flop, compressor 2017-05-02
9625525 IC decompress and maskable compress TAM with SFIR and SFCR 2017-04-18
9618581 Core wrappers, I/O circuitry, link instruction register with and gate 2017-04-11
9612282 Addressable tap with address detect and control. and gating circuitry 2017-04-04
9599669 Decompressed/compressed data parallel scan paths with input/output shift register, SCI/SCO 2017-03-21
9599668 Addressable tap domain selection circuit, interface select and instruction circuitry 2017-03-21
9594116 IC die with channel circuitry, scan and BIST taps, TLM 2017-03-14
9588178 Parallel and serial data with controller, delay, and register circuits 2017-03-07
9575122 Interface with write strobe sequencer, first and second series registers 2017-02-21
9575121 Off-chip tap interface control with instruction register, multiplexer and buffer 2017-02-21
9562946 Integrated circuit wafer having plural dies with each die including test circuit receiving expected data and mask data from different pads Alan Hales 2017-02-07
9559025 Scan testable through silicon VIAs 2017-01-31
9551748 Double data rate addressable tap interface with shadow protocol circuitry 2017-01-24
9547042 IR enabled gating of TAP and WSP shift, capture, transfer 2017-01-17
9535122 Serial/parallel control, separate tap, master reset synchronizer for tap domains 2017-01-03
9535127 Tester, parallel scan paths, and comparators in same functional circuits 2017-01-03
9535126 Tap, test, CSU, scan circuitry with top and bottom contacts 2017-01-03
9535125 Tap decay test circuitry having capture test strobe enable input 2017-01-03
9535124 TAP gated updateDR output AUX test control of WSP update 2017-01-03
9535118 TAP addressable circuit with bi-directional TMS and second signal lead 2017-01-03