ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,724, issued on June 17, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Processing wakeup requests in a processing system having power management circuitry and a processing circuitry" was invented by Loic Hureau (Sainte Marie d'Attez, France), Mohit Satsangi (New Delhi), Ray Charles Marshall (Herts, Great Britain) and Thomas Henry Luedeke (Oberbergkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power management circuitry includes a power management circuitry having a handshake watchdog (HWD) timer and configured to, upon a reset, set the HWD timer to a maximum delay time allowed between an initial wakeup request received at a first in...