US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR on Sept. 30 for "Method for entering system management mode, processor, and computer system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,163, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method for entering system management mode, processor, and computer system" was invented by Weilin Wang (Beijing), Yankui Niu (Beijing), Jinglong Liu (Beijing), Jiangbo Wang (Beijing), Yingbing Guan (Shanghai) and Long Cheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for a processor and a computer system to enter system management mode (SMM). The method is applied to the processor, which includes at least one logical core. The method includes entering the SMM in response to a system management interru...