ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,435, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and TSMC NANJING COMPANY Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Circuit and method for power management" was invented by Chia-Cheng Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jun Xie (Hisnchu, Taiwan), Chenhui Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Luping Kong (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ching-Wei Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a memory circuit, and a power management circuit having a first circuit. The first circuit is configured to, in response to a first state of the first power management control signal and a first state of the second power m...