US Patent Issued to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory on Aug. 12 for "Control device and data processing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,411, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

"Control device and data processing system" was invented by Haruki Katagiri (Kanagawa, Japan), Kyoichi Mukao (Kanagawa, Japan), Taiki Nonaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiko Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuta Ishikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The power consumption of a control device or a data processing system is reduced. Safety is enhanced. An electronic device is operated in a simple way. A control device includes an arithmetic circuit, an input unit, and a power management unit. The input unit includes a sensor element. ...