ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,963, issued on April 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Apparatus, system, and method of functional safety" was invented by Darshan Raj (Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany), Michael Schmidt (Remchingen, Germany) and Serdar Gueltekin (Pforzheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, an apparatus may include a motherboard including a functional processing core configured to perform a functionality having a Functional Safety (FuSa) level; a FuSa transceiver configured to communicate with an external safety-island processor, which is external to the motherboard; and a FuSa controller configured to establish a F...