US Patent Issued to WUHAN XINXIN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 17 for "Monotonic counters and counting methods by monotonic counter" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,171, issued on June 17, was assigned to WUHAN XINXIN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Monotonic counters and counting methods by monotonic counter" was invented by Zhongzhou Lu (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monotonic counter includes a plurality of storage blocks and a controller. Each of the storage blocks has a plurality of count storage units for sequentially storing at least data bit of count data. There is one of the storage blocks serving as a working storage block at any time. The controller includes: interrupt recording circuitry for recording an interrupt; and logic determination circuit...