ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,214, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Fast self-refresh exit power state" was invented by Christopher P. Mozak (Portland, Ore.), Robert J. Royer Jr. (Portland, Ore.), Aaron Martin (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Alex P. Thomas (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Tomer Levy (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Noam Lupovich (Pardesiya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a memory subsystem, a memory controller can put its physical interface (PHY) into a low power state when an associated memory device is in self-refresh. Instead of powering on the interface and then triggering the memory device to exit self-refresh, or in...