ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,443, issued on May 13, was assigned to Traxen Inc. (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Safety supervised general purpose computing devices" was invented by Ali Maleki (Plymouth, Mich.), Martha Elisa Rodriguez Zulueta (Plymouth, Mich.), Prem Kumar Sivakumar (Plymouth, Mich.), Larry Deal (Plymouth, Mich.) and Syed Ali (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device including a plurality of sensors, a system-on-module, a safety microcontroller and a plurality of communication interfaces communicatively coupling the system-on-module, the safety microcontroller and the plurality of sensors together. The system-on module can include an ...