US Patent Issued to Intel on March 11 for "Techniques to reduce memory power consumption during a system idle state" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,356, issued on March 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques to reduce memory power consumption during a system idle state" was invented by Virendra Vikramsinh Adsure (Folsom, Calif.), Chia-Hung S. Kuo (Folsom, Calif.), Robert J. Royer Jr. (Portland, Ore.) and Deepak Gandiga Shivakumar (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples include techniques to reduce memory power consumption during a system idle state. Cores of a single socket multi-core processor may be mapped to different virtual non-uniform memory architecture (NUMA) nodes and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may be partitioned ...