US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Dec. 9 for "Fault interface architecture in safety-relevant systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,509, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Fault interface architecture in safety-relevant systems" was invented by Kumar Abhishek (Bee Cave, Texas), Vivek Kumar Yadav (Austin, Texas), Sanjaykumar Hansrajbhai Kakasaniya (Austin, Texas), Vikram Joshi (Austin, Texas) and Joseph Rollin Wright (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for handling faults in an integrated circuit system includes receiving fault interface signals from safety-critical logic and generating a fault request indicating a fault and a domain identifier based on the fault interface signals. The fault interface signals inc...