ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,902, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SILICON WORKS Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"System and method for wirelessly transmitting and receiving safety information" was invented by Myoung Su Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Wan Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Il Kwon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system for transmitting and receiving safety information, which generates first safety information about a control target and second safety information representing the occurrence or not of an error in the control target by using one microcontroller. The system includes a first slave controller gen...