US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 5 for "True load disconnect reset of computing devices" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,759, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"True load disconnect reset of computing devices" was invented by Nathan Connell (Chicago), Juha Joonas Oikarinen (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Badhri Jagan Sridharan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes, responsive to determining that a button of a mobile computing device has been pressed for longer than a first amount of time, resetting a power management integrated circuit (PMIC); responsive to determining that the button of the mobile computing device has been pressed for longer than a second amount of time that is longer tha...