ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,321, issued on May 27, was assigned to Preh GmbH (Bad Neustadt a.d. Saale, Germany).
"Circuit assembly and method for controlling the operating state of a circuit" was invented by Mirco Albert (Bad Kissingen, Germany), Andre Ress (Roemhild, Germany) and Tim Scholz (Schweinfurt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit assembly and a method for controlling operation states The circuit can be shifted by idle signals from the active operation state into the idle state and can be shifted by wake-up signals in an edge-triggered manner from the idle state into the active operation state if the wake-up signal executes a change in po...