ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,032, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Storing contiguous display content in each DRAM for idle static screen power saving" was invented by Gia Tung Phan (Markham, Canada), Ashish Jain (Austin, Texas), Anthony Asaro (Markham, Canada) and Dennis Kin-Wah Au (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for efficiently managing power consumption among multiple, replicated functional blocks of an integrated circuit. An integrated circuit includes multiple, replicated memories that use separate power domains. Data of...