US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 8 for "Apparatus and method for waking up a processor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,245, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for waking up a processor" was invented by Changryong Heo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Kenhyung Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Kiyeon Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Yongyi Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for waking up a main processor (MP) in a low power or ultra-low power device preferably includes the MP, and a sub-processor (SP) that utilizes less power than the MP to monitor ambient conditions than the MP, and may be internalized in the MP. The MP and SP can...