US Patent Issued to Intel on March 4 for "Optimized compiler toolchain qualification for functional safety compliance" (Italian, British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,831, issued on March 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optimized compiler toolchain qualification for functional safety compliance" was invented by Maurizio Iacaruso (Lucca, Italy), Stefano Dell'Osa (Naples, Italy), Srikanth Kaniyanoor Srinivasan (Bangalore, India) and Kevin Smith (High Wycombe, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for implementing functional safety verification of a software compiler and a compiled software product are disclosed. In an example, verification of functional safety testing requirements includes: generating first code coverage data for a compiler (...