ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,340, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Power-on-reset signal isolation during lower power mode" was invented by Venkateswar Kowkutla (Allen, Texas), Chunhua Hu (Plano, Texas), Raghavendra Santhanagopal (McKinney, Texas), Kazunobu Shin (Plano, Texas), Charles Gerlach (Dallas), Rejitha Nair (Southlake, Texas), Ritesh Sojitra (Murphy, Texas), Sai Rajaraman (Frisco, Texas), Anthony Seely (Wylie, Texas), Siva Srinivas Kothamasu (Frisco, Texas), Varun Singh (McKinney, Texas) and John Apostol (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit device is provided and includes a first power domain comp...