US Patent Issued to Google on July 29 for "Systems and methods for usage of spare cores in connection with in-field tests of operational cores" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,319, issued on July 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for usage of spare cores in connection with in-field tests of operational cores" was invented by Ori Isachar (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shay Gal-On (Mountain View, Calif.) and Martin Guy Dixon (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology generally relates to systems and methods for performing in-field testing of processing cores within a system-on-chip (SoC), so as to identify faults, including those associated with silent data corruption. For example, an SoC may contain operational cores and spare cores. An operational core may...