US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on May 5 for "Functional safety for system-on-chip arrangements" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,182, issued on May 5, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Functional safety for system-on-chip arrangements" was invented by Francois Piednoel (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Oliver Pollny (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor data input chiplet obtains sensor data from a sensor system. A central chiplet executes a functional safety program to dynamically compare and verify output of workloads being executed by a set of workload processing chiplets, where the workloads are executed across the set of workload processing chiplets based on the sensor data."

The patent was filed on June 21, 2023, un...