US Patent Issued to Beijing Tenafe Electronic Technology on March 25 for "Hardware state reporting using interrupt pins" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,831, issued on March 25, was assigned to Beijing Tenafe Electronic Technology Co. Ltd. (China).

"Hardware state reporting using interrupt pins" was invented by Priyanka Nilay Thakore (Mountain View, Calif.), Lyle E. Adams (San Jose, Calif.) and Haibo Zhu (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configuration information is sent from a configuration controller to a processor module in a System On Chip (SOC) and associated with firmware. In response to receiving the configuration information, context switching associated with an interrupt pin in the processor module is disabled. Hardware state information is sent from a hardware f...