ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,504, issued on March 31, was assigned to THALES (Meudon, France).

"Method and apparatus for monitoring-with contention mitigation-avionics application(s) running on a platform with multi-core processor, related electronic avionics system and computer program" was invented by Pierrick Lamour (Merignac, France) and Nicolas Leonardi (Merignac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring avionics software application(s) executed by an avionics platform, on-board an aircraft, including a multi-core processor and hosting an operating system, is implemented by an electronic monitoring device and includes, for each softwar...