US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Jan. 28 for "System on chip with pre-exemption interrupts for partition execution control" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,615, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"System on chip with pre-exemption interrupts for partition execution control" was invented by Roderick Lee Dorris (Dripping Springs, Texas), John David Round (Austin, Texas) and Michael Andrew Fischer (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed for a multi-processor SoC which includes an execution domain processor for running an execution domain which hosts independent software partitions by accessing, for each software partition, one or more SoC resources; a control point processor that generates control data with pre-emption ...