US Patent Issued to NXP on May 20 for "Robust fail-safe system for prolonging the backup battery life in real-time low power MCU systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,698, issued on May 20, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Robust fail-safe system for prolonging the backup battery life in real-time low power MCU systems" was invented by Miten H. Nagda (Bee Cave, Texas), Edevaldo Pereira da Silva Jr. (Austin, Texas), Simon Gallimore (Austin, Texas) and Nidhi Chaudhry (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for supplying power to a backup power domain by connecting a battery voltage to a supply terminal for a backup power domain in a low power microcontroller during a startup mode when a main supply voltage, by detecting application of the mai...