ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,890, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Power saving mode control for a memory instance" was invented by Andy Wangkun Chen (Austin, Texas), Yew Keong Chong (Austin, Texas), Sriram Thyagarajan (Austin, Texas), Munish Kumar (Noida, India), Vivek Asthana (Greater Noida, India), Andrew John Turner (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Alex James Waugh (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory instance comprises a plurality of banks of storage cells to store data values, and input/output circuitry shared between the plurality of banks for receiving write data or outputting read data. ...