US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on April 21 for "Electrical and logic isolation for systems on a chip" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,666, issued on April 21, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Electrical and logic isolation for systems on a chip" was invented by Jose Luis Flores (Richardson, Texas), Ramakrishnan Venkatasubramanian (Plano, Texas) and Samuel Paul Visalli (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, an SoC includes at least two voltage domains interconnected with a communication bus. Detection logic in a first voltage domain determines when a voltage error occurs in a second voltage domain and isolates communication via the communication bus when a voltage error or a timing error is detected."

The patent was fi...