US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 20 for "Low power clock injection during idle mode operations" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,672, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Low power clock injection during idle mode operations" was invented by Noriaki Mochida (Yokohama, Japan), Takayuki Miyamoto (Machida, Japan), Kallol Mazumder (Dallas) and Scott E. Smith (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary semiconductor device includes an internal clock circuit configured to intermittently enable and disable a clock signal while in a Maximum Power Savings Mode. The duty cycle of the enablement and disablement of the clock signal may be based on susceptibility to negative-bias temperature instability of a component of ...