ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,764, issued on March 25, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Architecture for managing asynchronous resets in a system-on-a-chip" was invented by Kumar Abhishek (Bee Cave, Texas), Neha Srivastava (New Delhi), Yi Zheng (Austin, Texas) and Nishant Kumar (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing asynchronous resets in an SoC have been described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a reset generation circuit in an SoC, may include a first reset generation circuit configured to enable a first reset signal based, at least in part, upon a clock signal and an indication to reset. The r...