ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,830, issued on May 12, was assigned to Renesas Electronics Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Susumu Hirata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interrupt reception unit receives an interrupt request. In response to a received interrupt request, an interrupt processing unit performs an interrupt process of a first priority or an interrupt process of a second priority having a lower priority than the first priority. An interrupt suppression control unit controls the number of interrupt processes of the second priority processed by the interrupt processing unit in a cycle time according to a suppression condition....