US Patent Issued to Fort Robotics on June 2 for "Method for encoded diagnostics in a functional safety system" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,518, issued on June 2, was assigned to Fort Robotics Inc. (Philadelphia).

"Method for encoded diagnostics in a functional safety system" was invented by Kerfegar Khurshed Katrak (Philadelphia) and Nathan Bivans (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, storing a set of valid codewords including: a first valid functional codeword representing a functional state of a controller subsystem; a first valid fault codeword representing a fault state of the controller subsystem and characterized by a minimum hamming distance from the first valid functional codeword; a second valid functional codeword representing a functi...