US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Sept. 29 for "Control device for transition between normal mode and power saving mode" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,689, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device for transition between normal mode and power saving mode" was invented by Satoshi Usukura (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a first storage unit that requires no refreshing and has volatility, a first processor configured to access the first storage unit, a bus arbiter configured to arbitrate an access request from the first processor, and a first control circuit configured to perform mode control for the first storage unit based on the access request received from the first processor via the bus arbiter, wher...