ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,444, issued on April 1, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for detection of persistent faults in processing units and memory" was invented by Paul Kimelman (San Jose, Calif.) and Adam Fuks (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detection of persistent faults in processing units and memory have been described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a Machine Learning (ML) processor includes one or more registers, and a data moving circuit coupled to the one or more registers. The data moving circuit can be configured to select, based upon a first value stored...