ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,998, issued on June 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Reset using a shared reset signal and a retention mechanism" was invented by Prathamesh Ramesh Save (San Jose, Calif.) and Vinu Vijay Kumar (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, for reset using a shared reset signal and a retention mechanism. In some implementations, an integrated circuit includes one or more modules configured to be reset in response to a reset signal and an access control module configured to be reset in response to the reset signal. The integrated circuit includes one or more second memory elemen...