ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,723, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for safely starting an arithmetic logic unit" was invented by Friedrich Wiemer (Pleidelsheim, Germany) and Lukas Heberle (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for safely starting an arithmetic logic unit that includes a plurality of computer kernels, software being started which includes multiple computer-program parts that form one or more computer programs. The method includes: implementation of an integrity check of the computer-program parts, the integrity check being carried out in parallelized fashion utilizing at least...