ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,176, issued on May 26, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Back-up and restoration of register data" was invented by Yu-Der Chih (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes: a processor; a register configured to store a plurality of words, non-volatile memory having a plurality of cells, each cell corresponding to one of the words of the register, and wherein the each cell of the plurality of cells are set to an initial reset value; a first controller that in response to a loss in power: determines the word stored by the register; and changes the initial reset value of ...