ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,761, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

"Micro-controller circuit and management method thereof" was invented by Chi-Ray Huang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-controller circuit including a central processing unit (CPU), a plurality of function circuits, a management circuit, and a driving circuit is provided. The CPU is in a first power domain. The function circuits are in a second power domain. In response to the first power domain being powered-off, the function circuits operate normally to generate an event trigger signal. The management circuit re...