ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,859, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for efficient wake operations having reduced boot times" was invented by Naga Lakshmana Sundeep Kancherla (Bangalore, India), Suryakant Maharana (Karnataka, India) and Shirish Agrawal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices provide efficient wake operations and boot times for electronic devices. Methods include initiating, using one or more processing elements, a boot operation associated with a plurality of power domains, and determining, using the one or more processing elemen...