ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,223, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Power efficient unmatched data path architecture for non-volatile memory" was invented by Abhishek Singhania (Bangalore, India) and Sajal Mittal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce power consumption and circuitry requirements, the following presents an "unmatched" data output architecture, in which the clock path does not mimic the data path. To provide proper data transfers in the data output path, the clock signal is tuned at points of the clock path, such as for data transfers from internal data buses to FIFOs and from the...