ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,831, issued on June 10, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"System on a chip and method for operating a system on a chip" was invented by Albrecht Mayer (Deisenhofen, Germany), Patrik Eder (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Kajetan Nuernberger (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a system on a chip is provided that is configured to be operated in a debug mode. The system on a chip includes a plurality of processor cores including a plurality of virtual machines and a further processor core, configured to, in the debug mode, initially execute first debug instructions after the system on a chi...