ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,016, issued on July 29, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Microcontroller and method for controlling the same" was invented by Yu-Jen Chang (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microcontroller including a processing circuit, a function-controlling circuit and a first functional module is provided. The processing circuit is arranged to provide a first enabling signal in an operation mode, and stop providing the first enabling signal in a low power-consumption mode. The function-controlling circuit is electrically connected to the processing circuit, and arranged to generate a first signal in resp...