US Patent Issued to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. on Dec. 30 for "Low power standby mode for memory devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,950, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Low power standby mode for memory devices" was invented by Bard M. Pedersen (Fremont, Calif.) and Gideon Intrater (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device, can include: a control circuit configured to operate the memory device in one of an active mode, a standby mode, and a sleep mode, where the memory device is configured to receive a command from a host device when in the standby mode; a voltage regulator having an output that provides a supply voltage for accessing contents of memory cells in the memory device, where the volt...