ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,282, issued on May 12, was assigned to Nuvoton Technology Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

"Microcontroller and control device" was invented by Yung-Chi Lan (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device coupled to an oscillator circuit and including a first output circuit, a synchronizer circuit, a hysteresis circuit, a stable circuit, and a second output circuit is provided. The first output circuit activates an oscillator circuit according to an activation signal so that the oscillator circuit generates an input clock. The synchronizer circuit synchronizes the activation signal to generate a synchronization ...