ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,725, issued on June 9, was assigned to E-PEAS (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

"Semiconductor device operating modes management" was invented by Cedric Hocquet (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), Julien De Vos (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and Geoffroy Gosset (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device (10) is provided having several operating modes, a core (12) adapted for executing a software application (14), said software application (14) being adapted for selecting the configuration of one or more of peripherals (60) and for issuing a sleep request. A Power Management Unit (PMU) (130), having a first input...