ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,038, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Global counter save and restore" was invented by Prashanth Kumar Kakkireni (Bengaluru, India), Naveen Kumar Narala (Bengaluru, India), Amod Phadke (Bangalore, India), Arun Gothekar (Hyderabad, India) and Anirudh Ghayal (Secunderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A global count or reference time in a computing device may be maintained during a sleep state in which the global counter is powered off. The global count from the global counter may be saved in a register when the sleep state is entered. When the sleep state is exited, the global count in the regis...