ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,594, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Controlling memory module clock buffer power in a system with a single memory clock per memory module" was invented by Isaac Q Wang (Austin, Texas) and Lee B. Zaretsky (Nazare, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock buffer device for a memory module includes a first clock input coupled to an input of a first phase-locked loop (PLL), and a second clock input coupled to an input of a second PLL. An output of the first PLL is selectably coupled to clock output buffers, and an output of the second PLL is selectably coupled to a subset of the clock outp...