ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,923, issued on April 14, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to provide an efficient safety mechanism for signal processing hardware" was invented by Mihir Narendra Mody (Bangalore, India), Niraj Nandan (Plano, Texas), Hetul Sanghvi (Richardson, Texas) and Manoj Koul (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and articles of manufacture provide an efficient safety mechanism for signal processing hardware. An example system includes a hardware accelerators, including a first hardware accelerator, and a second hardware accelerator coupled to the first hardware accelerator. Each of the firs...