ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,657, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Trident IoT LLC (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Power-saving hardware polling peripheral" was invented by Brandon Gruber (San Marcos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a system, method and apparatus are described for reducing power consumption of a battery-powered electronic device. A hardware polling peripheral operates in conjunction with a CPU within the battery-powered electronic device. When the CPU enters a quiescent state in order to save power, the hardware polling peripheral begins the polling cycle that polls one or more I/O pins of the hardware polling peripheral to detect a ch...