ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,693, issued on May 20, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Method and device for saving power" was invented by Ching-Yao Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Bo-Yun Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tai-Ying Jiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hui-Hsuan Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for saving power is provided. The method is used in a slave device. The method includes receiving a first system power management interface (SPMI) write command from an external device via a SPMI bus when the slave device is in sleep mode. The method includes turning on a system clock in response to the first SPMI write command indicating t...