US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "Datalogging circuit triggered by a watchdog timer" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,836, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Datalogging circuit triggered by a watchdog timer" was invented by John H. Kelm (Belmont, Calif.), Richard H. Larson (Saratoga, Calif.) and Charles J. Fleckenstein (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a memory circuit, and an integrated circuit formed on a single semiconductor substrate and coupled to the memory circuit. The integrated circuit includes a watchdog timer, a plurality of functional circuits coupled together via a communication fabric, and a system management circuit coupled to the watchdog timer and to a subset of th...