ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,890, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Chip and platform level power monitoring and sequencing for robust startup and mode switching" was invented by Deepak Dasalukunte (Beaverton, Ore.), Amy Whitcombe (Saratoga, Calif.), Finbarr O'Regan (Innishannon, Ireland), Conor O'Keeffe (Cork, Ireland) and Sundar Krishnamurthy (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include at least two circuit portions having separate power sequencer circuitry. The apparatus can further include processing circuitry configured to control at least one portion of the at least two circuit portions to operate at ...