ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,415, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).
"Microcontroller circuit and boot control method" was invented by Chun-Hao Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tzu-Lan Shen (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microcontroller circuit is provided. The microcontroller circuit includes a memory, a check module, and a processor. The memory includes a main memory block and a backup memory block. The main memory block has a boot setting and the backup memory block has a backup boot setting. The check module includes a register. The processor is configured to determine whether the backup ...