ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,262, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Power hold-off circuit" was invented by Hongyan Li (Shanghai) and Marco Redaelli (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to a power hold-off circuit and power hold-off circuit operation. In some implementations, a system may include a battery, a first pre-regulator that is connected to a first set components, a second pre-regulator that is connected to a second set of components, a second diode, and a power hold-off circuit. The power hold-off circuit may include a step-up regulator, a step-down regulator, one or mor...