ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,423, issued on April 15, was assigned to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Fujian, China).
"Processor control method and associated system-on-chip" was invented by Cheng-Chi Huang (Hsinchu, China), Shu-Cheng Chou (Hsinchu, China) and Yu-Hsiang Lin (Hsinchu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a processor control method including: controlling a processor to execute a first operating system in a first state; when the processor executing the first operating system satisfies a predetermined condition, controlling the processor to switch from the first state to a second state; and controlling the processor to exec...