ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,936, issued on July 15, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Interconnect bus safety" was invented by Lin Li (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interconnect connects a first device running a first application and with a first interface and a second device running a second application and with a second interface. The first device has a safety guard which may be used in an operations mode to send safety relevant data from the first application to the second application. Safety information is added to the safety relevant data to create safety marked data. The safety marked data is transmitted to the sec...