ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,307, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Ambiq Micro Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Flexible and low power cache memory architecture" was invented by Daniel Martin Cermak (Austin, Texas) and Stephen James Sheafor (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low power caching architecture is disclosed. The architecture includes multiple data memory regions, each including a cache memory. The data memory regions are coupled to a peripheral device. A host processor is operable to control power to each of the plurality of data memory regions. The host processor is operable to power on any of data memory regions and power down any unused data mem...