US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International, ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA on Nov. 4 for "Temporal lockstep" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,145, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva) and ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA (Bologna, Italy).

"Temporal lockstep" was invented by Elio Guidetti (Montano Lucino, Italy), Filippo Grillotti (Milan), Fabio Giuseppe De Ambroggi (Biassono, Italy), Riccardo Tedeschi (Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy), Davide Rossi (Bologna, Italy) and Alessandro Nadalini (Crevalcore, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for implementing temporal lockstep for error detection utilizing a single processor core are provided. For example, a processor core includes a pipeline with...