ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,289, issued on April 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"System on a chip with an integrated configurable safety master microcontroller unit" was invented by Venkateswar Kowkutla (Allen, Texas), Raghavendra Santhanagopal (Dallas), Chunhua Hu (Plano, Texas), Anthony Frederick Seely (Wylie, Texas), Nishanth Menon (Plano, Texas), Rajesh Kumar Vanga (Bangalore, India), Rejitha Nair (Southlake, Texas), Siva Srinivas Kothamasu (Frisco, Texas), Kazunobu Shin (Plano, Texas), Jason Peck (Sugar Land, Texas) and John Apostol (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, e.g., a system on a chip (SoC) includes a fi...