US Patent Issued to Fort Robotics on Jan. 20 for "Determining functional safety state using software-based ternary state translation of analog input" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,251, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Fort Robotics Inc. (Philadelphia).

"Determining functional safety state using software-based ternary state translation of analog input" was invented by Kerfegar Khurshed Katrak (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety module having a plurality of microcontrollers receives an analog input and determines a value of the analog input. The microcontrollers each determine a respective ternary state of the device by identifying, from three candidate ranges of values, a range of values in which the value falls, wherein at least two of the plurality of microcontrollers uses different candid...