ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,800, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Freedom from interference (FFI) in electronics systems" was invented by Sriram Hariharan (San Diego), Ghanashyam Prabhu (San Diego), Yuwen Zou (San Jose, Calif.), Deepak Kumar Agarwal (Bangalore, India), Alexis Gabriel Marcel Boutillier (Caen, France) and Subbarao Palacharla (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to implementation of a freedom from interference (FFI) safety mechanism. In accordance with one aspect, the disclosure includes initiating a fault handling for a first automotive safety integrity level (ASIL) domain ...