ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,174, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Processor-based system employing a safety island architecture for fail-safe operation" was invented by Sriram Hariharan (San Diego), Bohuslav Rychlik (San Diego), Deepak Baranwal (Greater Noida, India), Vinay Kumar Garipelli (Bangalore, India) and Amod Phadke (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-based system employing a safety island architecture for fail-safe operation and related methods are disclosed. The processor-based system includes a main domain for controlling a device. The main domain receives and processes vehicle information from a...