US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on May 12 for "Method and system for controlling a memory device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,539, issued on May 12, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Method and system for controlling a memory device" was invented by Zhi Gao (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Suneel Varma Uppalapati Venkata (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a memory device in which the memory device has a normal mode in which the memory device is operable, and a power save mode in which the memory device is inoperable and consumes lower power than the normal mode. The method includes determining a metric based on the time spent by the memory device in at least one ...