ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,317, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Clock management circuit and clock management method" was invented by Yu-Jie Liang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock management circuit and a clock management method are used for managing an operating clock of a processor circuit, and the processor circuit changes the level of a state signal according to an interrupt signal. The clock management circuit includes a delay circuit for delaying a wake-up interrupt to generate a delayed wake-up interrupt; and a clock control circuit for generating the operating clock according to a ...