US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 13 for "Grouping power supplies for a sleep mode" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,838, issued on May 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Grouping power supplies for a sleep mode" was invented by Ki-Jun Nam (Boise, Idaho), Yantao Ma (Boise, Idaho), Yasushi Matsubara (Isehara, Japan) and Takamasa Suzuki (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for grouping power supplies for a power saving mode are described to configure a memory device with groups of internal power supplies whose voltage levels may be successively modified according to a group order signaled by an on-die timer. For example, when the memory device enters a deep sleep mode, respective volta...