ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,022, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Low battery voltage protection method for microcontroller system and microcontroller system using the same" was invented by Pao-Shu Chang (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low battery voltage protection method for a microcontroller system and a microcontroller system using the same are provided. The low battery protection method and the microcontroller system are used to prevent continuous battery drain by setting time thresholds and a count threshold. In an embodiment, when a low-voltage power-on reset voltage is not excee...