ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,799, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Explicit lockstep for functional safety" was invented by Henry Stracovsky (Austin, Texas), Nir Maor (San Diego), Antonio Priore (Cambridge, Great Britain), Vikas Kumar Sinha (Austin, Texas), Paul Kitchin (Austin, Texas) and Sunil Oak (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of explicit lockstep for functional safety includes spawning, by a main thread, a first safe thread core and a second safe thread core. The method also includes initializing and mapping a first data register associated with the first safe thread core to each safe variable of a se...