ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,392, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power supply management circuit" was invented by Leijie Zhou (Kyoto, Japan) and Hirofumi Inada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PMIC controls multiple power supply circuits. Nonvolatile memory supports repeated writing and has multiple pages. A memory control circuit selects one from among the multiple pages of the nonvolatile memory and writes internal data that indicates an internal state of the power supply management circuit to the write target page. The memory control circuit selects an already-erased page as the write target page and writes the...