ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,804, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Low power management for sleep mode operation of a memory device" was invented by Shuai Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michele Piccardi (Cupertino, Calif.), Arvind Muralidharan (Folsom, Calif.), June Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qisong Lin (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Scott A Stoller (Boise, Idaho) and Jun Shen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a memory sub-system, causing a standby circuit associated with a memory device to enter into a low power mode. In the low power mode, causing a reference voltage to be supplied to a voltage regulator, wherein the ...