ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,069, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apogee Semiconductor Inc. (Plano, Texas).
"Single-event effect tolerant register" was invented by David A. Grant (Dallas) and Noah C. Parker (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resilient majority driver accepts triple-redundant input signals and provides a robust output signal unaffected by static errors on one of the input signals or by single-event transients caused by radiation within the driver. Data, clock, and asynchronous input signals to DICE (Dual Interlocked storage CEll) flip-flops in a register are driven by resilient majority drivers to construct an input-protected DICE ...