ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,259, issued on April 8, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Out-of-bounds recovery circuit" was invented by Ashish Darbari (Abbots Langley, Great Britain) and Iain Singleton (Hemel Hempstead, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Out-of-bounds recovery circuits configured to detect an out-of-bounds violation in an electronic device, and cause the electronic device to transition to a predetermined safe state when an out-of-bounds violation is detected. The out-of-bounds recovery circuits include detection logic configured to detect that an out-of-bounds violation has occurred when a pr...