ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,332, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Layered architecture for managing health of an electronic system and methods for layered health management" was invented by Xiankun Jin (Austin, Texas), Andres Barrilado Gonzalez (Toulouse, France) and Mathieu Blazy-Winning (Pibrac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layered architecture for managing health of the electronic system comprises a plurality of health subsystems. Health subsystems receive health information from health monitors coupled to respective components of the electronic system and provide the health information to another health subsyst...