ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,600, issued on Feb. 17.
"Single voting processor architecture" was invented by Bradford T Hite (Valencia, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unique system for the implementation of a hardware based task sequencer controlling a time-shared single processor executing multiple redundant software programs is described. Each fully self contained software image resides in a partitioned memory section executing exclusively without the need for a common operating system or hypervisor. The invention also enables the usage of commercially available flash memory and low cost CMOS microprocessor to implement a TMR voting architecture. Impro...