ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,895, issued on March 18, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electronic system and determination method capable of determining reason of cold boot event" was invented by Chao-Min Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ming-Tsung Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system includes a main chip, a non-volatile storage circuit, and a detector circuit. The main chip is configured to read first time of a clock circuit. The non-volatile storage circuit is coupled to the main chip. The main chip stores the first time into the non-volatile storage circuit. The ...