ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,614, issued on June 9, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor apparatus with active internal power control and memory system including the same" was invented by Hyun Chul Cho (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor apparatus includes an internal voltage generation circuit and a control circuit. The internal voltage generation circuit includes a plurality of sub-circuits that receive an external voltage as an input and generate at least one internal voltage based on the external voltage. The control circuit determines where the external voltage falls within a range between ...