US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for a safety critical switching circuit" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,373, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Systems and methods for a safety critical switching circuit" was invented by Brian Eric Fix (Hood River, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and circuit for monitoring a plurality of signals as input from a switch. It may be detected whether a current state of the switch is valid based upon, at least in part, the plurality of signals. When the current state of the switch is valid, use of the current state of the switch may be enabled as an output. When the current state of the switch is invalid, use of the current state of th...