ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,264, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Shallow hibernate power state" was invented by Deping He (Boise, Idaho), Nadav Grosz (Broomfield, Colo.) and Jonathan S. Parry (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for shallow hibernate power state are described. A memory system may include a memory array and a controller. The memory system may transition from a first power state having a first current to a second power state having a second current less than the first current, where the first power state is associated with executing received commands and the second p...