ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,698, issued on April 21, was assigned to ASRock Industrial Computer Corp. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"CMOS data clearing circuit" was invented by Yu-Lin Lai (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Tso Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Shih-Ming Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CMOS data clearing circuit is provided. The CMOS data clearing circuit is configured to clear CMOS data of a main board of an electronic device. The electronic device includes a control chip and a pin header. The CMOS data clearing circuit includes a controller and a connection port. The controller generates a pulse signal and an operation signal. The conn...