ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,799, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Safe, secure, virtualized, domain specific hardware accelerator" was invented by Kedar Satish Chitnis (Bengaluru, India), Charles Lance Fuoco (Allen, Texas), Sriramakrishnan Govindarajan (Bengaluru, India), Mihir Narendra Mody (Bengaluru, India), William A. Mills (Clarksburg, Md.), Gregory Raymond Shurtz (Houston) and Amritpal Singh Mundra (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to various implementations an embedded computing system. The embedded computing system comprises a hardware accelerator (HWA) thread user and a second HWA thr...