ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,656, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Power control method for microcontroller unit and power control system using the same" was invented by I-Ching Chen (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a power control method for a microcontroller unit (MCU) and a power control system using the same. The power control method includes after a triggering event of switching CPU frequency occurs, controlling, through a power controller, a low dropout linear regulator (LDO) to output a preset voltage and triggering a clock controller to switch a first central pro...