US Patent Issued to Halo Microelectronics International on July 8 for "Integrated circuit control apparatus and method" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,434, issued on July 8, was assigned to Halo Microelectronics International (Campbell, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit control apparatus and method" was invented by Muhammad Ahmed (Garland, Texas), Wenchao Qu (Plano, Texas) and Kuangyu Chiang (Saint Paul, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an enable circuit having a first input configured to receive a serial data in (SDI) signal, a second input configured to receive a not chip select (nCS) signal, a third input configured to receive a hold (HLD) signal, and an output configured to generate an internal enable signal for controlling a power-up process and a power-dow...