ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,902, issued on June 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Register retention during device power collapse" was invented by Vishal Karna (San Diego), Rohit Chaudhary (San Diego), Vijayaram Muppalla (San Diego), Tanmay Ashokkumar Sharma (San Diego) and Yu-An Shih (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to integrated circuits. In some aspects, a device may identify a register associated with the device. The device may identify, based at least in part on a formal based register retention analysis, that the register is to be retained during a power collapse associated wi...