ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,701, issued on May 20, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).
"Data stream watchdog injection" was invented by Charles Myers (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and circuits utilize one or multiple data-stream watchdog codes for verifying a temporal state of data from a sensor system. A data-stream watchdog system can includes a sensor system configured to detect physical phenomena and produce corresponding output signals; a memory structure configured to store the output signals as sequential data on a repeating cycle, a watchdog code generator configured to insert a watchdog code i...