ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,912, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electronic system and protection method for power management circuit" was invented by Kuan-Wen Su (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shu-Ching Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Yu Lan (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shang-Wei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system is provided. The electronic system includes a processor and a first power management circuit. The processor generates and outputs a first data frame. The first data frame includes at least one first guard bit and a first address. The first power management circuit includes a first register. The ...