US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "Power gating for memory repeater circuits" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,853, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Power gating for memory repeater circuits" was invented by Srikar Pradyumna Matam (Cupertino, Calif.), Zhen Liu (Austin, Texas) and Michael A. Dreesen (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a memory controller circuit, and a first memory circuit coupled to the memory controller circuit. The first memory circuit may include a plurality of first memory cells, first local access circuitry, and a first set of repeater circuits. The apparatus may further include a second memory circuit coupled to the first set of repeater circuits. The...