ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,314, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dover Microsystems Inc. (Wayland, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for executing state machine in parallel with application code" was invented by Andrew Sutherland (Portland, Ore.), Jonathan B. Rosenberg (Wayland, Mass.) and Gregory T. Sullivan (Rockport, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a system is provided, comprising enforcement hardware configured to execute, at run time, a state machine in parallel with application code. Executing the state machine may include: maintaining metadata that corresponds to one or more state variables of the state machine; matching instructi...