ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,777, issued on May 6, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) SAS (Le Mans, France).

"Management of a low-power mode" was invented by Gerald Baeza (Mulsanne, France), Pascal Paillet (Le Mans, France) and Loic Pallardy (Rouillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a method for managing a low-power mode of an electronic device includes at a first request for transitioning an electronic device to a low-power mode, storing values of a first counter and a second counter of the electronic device on a first edge of a first clock and at a second request for transitioning the electronic device out of the low-power...