ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,366, issued on July 29, was assigned to NETLIST INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Memory with on-module power management" was invented by Chi-She Chen (Walnut, Calif.), Jeffrey C. Solomon (Irvine, Calif.), Scott H. Milton (Irvine, Calif.) and Jayesh Bhakta (Cerritos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain embodiments, a memory module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) having an interface that couples it to a host system for provision of power, data, address and control signals. First, second, and third buck converters receive a pre-regulated input voltage and produce first, second and third regulated voltages. A converter circuit...