US Patent Issued to Lattice Semiconductor on Dec. 30 for "Dual power supplied memory cells and deterministic reset thereof for programmable logic devices" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,143, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Dual power supplied memory cells and deterministic reset thereof for programmable logic devices" was invented by Loren L. McLaury (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Bradley A. Sharpe-Geisler (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques are provided to implement dual power supplied memory cells and deterministic reset thereof for programmable logic devices. In one example, a programmable logic device (PLD) includes a configuration memory including an array of memory cells arranged in rows and columns. The PLD further includes a power supp...