ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,254, issued on April 29, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for performing switching function and switching device" was invented by Romain Rollet (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for performing switching functions by a processing circuit of a switching device, the communication over the communication channel being organized according to successive first time slices and a second time slices, the processing circuit implementing a RTOS which in normal operation comprises a RTOS scheduler for scheduling a plurality of tasks having different priorities, said m...