ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,467, issued on June 3, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor device with current control for standby mode" was invented by Muneaki Tadokoro (Tokyo) and Takao Kondo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a control circuit configured to suppress a current variation by turning on or off a constant current source when transitioning to a standby mode. The control circuit has a function of predicting a current variation value from register information and information of current profile. The control circuit has a function of optimizing single control amount of the current source and ...