US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 22 for "Power management" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,939, issued on July 22, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Power management" was invented by Liang Yu (Boise, Idaho) and Jeremy Binfet (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device might include registers configured to store expected peak current magnitudes corresponding to a plurality of memory devices containing the memory device, and a controller configured to cause the memory device to determine whether to initiate a next phase of an access operation in response to at least a first sum of an expected peak current magnitude for the next phase of the access operation in a selected operating mode ...