US Patent Issued to IGT on March 24 for "Non-volatile memory data retention using system RAM and SSD" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,392, issued on March 24, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Non-volatile memory data retention using system RAM and SSD" was invented by Wayne Forsey (Riverview, Canada), Michael Patrick (Riverview, Canada) and Patrick Russell (Riverview, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming device includes a display device, a processor circuit, a battery charging circuit that is conductively coupled to a cabinet input power source and that provides a charging current to a battery, and a power state output signal that is transmitted to the processor circuit and that includes a value that depends on the first switching power input. The devic...