ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,582, issued on July 15, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Electronic device and method of responding to a trigger to wake up" was invented by Jun Han Koh (Singapore) and Hoe Chun Goh (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an electronic device comprising: an input-output management device configured to manage input-output connections; and a microcontroller communicatively connected to the input-output management device, wherein the microcontroller is configured to perform an initialization phase after a trigger is received from an input-output connection to wake the ele...