M2Communication Assigned Patent

M2Communication Inc., Zhubei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,338,664) developed by Petitgrand, Fabien, and Lin, Huang-Lun, Hsinchu County, Taiwan, for “control module for data retention and method of operating control module.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: A control module used with a peripheral unit having configuration information through a system bus includes a storage unit, a state machine unit and an event detector. The storage unit is configured to store a program. The state machine unit is configured to operate under the program. The event detector is configured to receive a hardware interrupt signal from the peripheral unit via an additional wire, wherein the event detector triggers the state machine to perform one of storing and retrieving the configuration information respectively to and from the storage unit via the system bus.”

The patent application was filed on April 20, 2016 (15/133,467).