ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,950, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"System on a chip with always-on processor" was invented by Brijesh Tripathi (Los Altos, Calif.), Shane J. Keil (San Jose, Calif.), Manu Gulati (Saratoga, Calif.), Jung Wook Cho (Cupertino, Calif.), Erik P. Machnicki (San Jose, Calif.), Gilbert H. Herbeck (Livermore, Calif.), Timothy J. Millet (Mountain View, Calif.), Joshua P. de Cesare (Campbell, Calif.) and Anand Dalal (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a system on a chip (SOC) includes a component that remains powered when the remainder of the SOC is powered off. The component ma...