ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,016, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Evaluation of software programs for compliance with functional safety" was invented by Stefano Dell'Osa (Pescara, Italy), Maurizio Iacaruso (Lucca, Italy) and Roberto Paccapeli (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a device, system, and/or method for evaluating functional safety compliance for a software program against a plurality of requirements. The device includes a processor that determines a plurality of implementation values for developing the software program. Each implementation value of the plurality of implementation values is as...