ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,491, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Transitions between low power modes in a processing system" was invented by Mohit Satsangi (New Delhi), Loic Hureau (Toulouse, France), Thomas Henry Luedeke (Oberbergkirchen, Germany), Ray Charles Marshall (Herts, Great Britain) and Shreya Singh (Ranchi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing circuitry includes a selectively powered domain having a communications interface to communicate with power management circuitry via a bus in accordance with a bus protocol, and a processing core to control the communications interface, wherein the selectively powere...