US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on May 12 for "Energy friendly event processing task model" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,749, issued on May 12, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Energy friendly event processing task model" was invented by Jean-Francois Deschenes (Ste-Marthe-sur-le-lac, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RTOS includes an event processor construct. The event processor has a task priority and an event processor handler. A stack for the event processor is allocated by the RTOS. The event processor handler is called by the RTOS each time an event is posted by an interrupt request handler or another task. Once processing of the event completes, the event processor handler returns (as opposed to remaining in an ...