ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,892, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Multi-core system-on-chip" was invented by Gonzalo Salinas Hernando (Cork City, Ireland), Alejandro Garcia Gener (Cork, Ireland) and Fabio Federici (Tornimparte, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system-on-chip may include a first core having a first processor architecture and a second core having a different second processor architecture. The system-on-chip may include a shared bus communicatively coupled to the cores and a shared memory communicatively coupled to the shared bus, for storing shared data accessible by cores. A hardware compariso...