ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,840, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China).

"Fault-tolerant system with multi-core CPUs capable of being dynamically configured" was invented by Kai Huang (Zhejiang, China), Siheng Chen (Zhejiang, China), Xiaowen Jiang (Zhejiang, China), Xiaoxu Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Zhili Liu (Zhejiang, China), Wenyuan Xu (Zhejiang, China) and Yonggang Peng (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the technical field of central processing units (CPUs), and in particular to a fault-tolerant system with multi-core CPUs capable of being dynamically configured. The multi-core C...