US Patent Issued to NXP on June 17 for "Method and apparatus for fault indication propagation and fault masking in a hierarchical arrangement of systems" (Indian, Nepalese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,737, issued on June 17, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for fault indication propagation and fault masking in a hierarchical arrangement of systems" was invented by Hemant Nautiyal (Greater Noida, India), Shruti Singla (Samana, India), Rohan Poudel (Bhairahawa, Nepal), Shreya Singh (Ranchi, India), Sandeep Kumar Arya (Bangalore, India) and Bipin Gupta (Indergarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central system coupled to a subsystem receives a fault indication associated with a fault in one or more circuits of the subsystem from a local fault collection and control (FCCS) of the subsyste...