ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,146, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Power loss reduction in data storage arrays" was invented by Vivekanandan Venugopal (Saratoga, Calif.), Ajay Bhatia (Saratoga, Calif.), Sneha Sindhu Matam (Austin, Texas) and Raymond Chang (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory circuit including a storage array circuit and a control circuit is disclosed. The control circuit may select a particular row of storage circuits in the storage array circuit and activate a first-stage circuit in a particular storage circuit in the particular row by coupling the first-stage circuit to a power supply node. ...