ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,513, issued on Nov. 25.

"Memory devices configured to provide external regulated voltages" was invented by Matthew A. Prather (Boise, Idaho) and Thomas H. Kinsley (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory devices, systems including memory devices, and methods of operating memory devices and systems in which a memory device can include a voltage regulator for adjusting a supply voltage to an output voltage and providing the output voltage to other devices external to the memory device (e.g., other memory devices in the same memory system, processors, graphics chipsets, other logic circuits, expansion cards, etc.). A memory d...