US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Nov. 4 for "Radiation induced error detection in solid-state devices" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,813, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Radiation induced error detection in solid-state devices" was invented by Mark Joseph Clemen Jr. (Port Orchard, Wash.), Ethan Cannon (Seattle) and Manuel F. Cabanas-Holmen (Roy, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state device having a substrate that receives an ionizing radiation, logic circuits, integrity circuits, and a collection circuit. The logic circuits are operational to perform logic functions. The logic circuits are located in an area on the substrate, and are individually susceptible to a possible corruption by the ionizing radiation. Each in...