ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,579, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ambiq Micro Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"On-demand activation of memory path during sleep or active modes" was invented by Daniel Martin Cermak (Austin, Texas), Scott McLean Hanson (Morganville, N.J.), Yousof Mortazavi (Austin, Texas) and Ramakanth Kondagunturi (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-power system-on-chip includes an originating controller, a fabric, and a power controller. The originating controller is configured to initiate a memory transaction request including a source address. The fabric includes an arbiter configured to receive the memory transaction request and determ...