ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,766, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Central processing unit system and method with improved self-checking" was invented by Iani Bogdan Almajan (Bragadiru, Romania), Julien Olivain (Grasse, France) and Joseph Charles Circello (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Self-checking central processing unit (CPU) systems and methods are provided, in which the self-checking CPU systems include a core monitor that performs checking functions to monitor and verify the executions of a primary CPU. The primary CPU has a primary processor pipeline, and the core monitor has a checker pipeline that is parallel to...