US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 2 for "Hardware control path redundancy for functional safety of peripherals" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,551, issued on June 2, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Hardware control path redundancy for functional safety of peripherals" was invented by Veeramanikandan Raju (Bangalore, India) and Anand Kumar G (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes primary register circuitry to receive a first signal to write a first value to the primary register circuitry; secondary register circuitry to receive a second signal to write a second value to the secondary register circuitry; a counter configured to count a set amount of time from when the first signal is received; and a controller coupled to the count...