ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,652, issued on May 20, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"System on a chip (SoC) having a low power mode of operation" was invented by Vivek Kumar Yadav (Austin, Texas), Kushagra Khorwal (Austin, Texas), Joseph Rollin Wright (Round Rock, Texas) and Kumar Abhishek (Bee Cave, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an integrated circuit, a first always on (AON) domain generates an isolation signal to enter standby mode. A switchable power domain propagates the isolation signal. A voltage level detector outputs an indicator which indicates whether a voltage of the switchable power supply is above or below a voltage threshold...