ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,319, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"System and method for fault sequence recording" was invented by Abhinay Patil (Bangalore, India), Kavitha Balaramaiah (Bangalore, India) and Mahadev Gopalakrishnan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described embodiments include a fault monitoring system comprising a fault logic circuit having a fault logic input adaptable to be coupled to sensor inputs, and first and second fault logic outputs. The fault logic circuit compares a plurality of data values provided by respective sensor inputs to respective fault thresholds, and provides respective f...