ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,273, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Safety monitoring of a system-on-a-chip" was invented by Amit Aneja (Chandler, Ariz.), Vasant Kumar Easwaran (Frisco, Texas) and Rahul Gulati (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for safety monitoring of a vehicle control system. An example method of operating a vehicle includes detecting an error associated with a system-on-a-chip (SoC) having a main domain and a safety domain, wherein the main domain is coupled to a first bus for communicating with one or more electronic control units (ECUs) ...