US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Americas on Oct. 27 for "Automotive network switch with hardware-implemented safety monitor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,945, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Automotive network switch with hardware-implemented safety monitor" was invented by Xiongzhi Ning (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Axel Fischer (Buehl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network switch includes a plurality of ports, packet processing circuitry, and a failure detector including a hardware-implemented state-machine. The ports are configured to receive and transmit packets over a network. The packet processing circuitry includes multiple electronic components, the packet processing circuitry configured to process the packet...