US Patent Issued to Google on April 29 for "Hardware-based save-and-restore controller" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,755, issued on April 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hardware-based save-and-restore controller" was invented by Vinoth Kumar Deivasigamani (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes systems and techniques for a hardware-based save-and-restore controller in an SoC. The described systems and techniques can automatically save and restore access control configurations (e.g., register states) of IP subsystems during a power-down and a power-up sequence, respectively. The save operation is initiated by a local save-and-restore (L SAR) controller and performed by the IP subsystems writing the ...