ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,265, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Hybrid microprocessor and programmable logic device (PLD)-based architecture including inter processor communication" was invented by Rajesh Madathikandam (Karnataka, India), Robin David Hill (Solihull, Great Britain), Stephen Potter (Nuneaton, Great Britain), Ashish Vijay (Rajasthan, India), Rajeeva Krishna (Bangalore, India) and Anitha Thangavel (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microprocessor-PLD hybrid architecture includes an IPC microprocessor and a PLD in signal communication with the IPC microprocessor via an IPC interface...