ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,246, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Circuit and method for task monitoring" was invented by Giuseppe D'Angelo (Tufino, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring circuit performing logical and temporal task monitoring of a plurality of tasks comprises a task recording circuit and a task management circuit receiving as input a plurality of task signals, each task signal being indicative of an execution state of a respective task. The task management circuit comprises a managing circuit configured to operate in at least three modes depending on a respective event correspo...