ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,841, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Power supply apparatus and memory system" was invented by Yugi Ito (Tokyo), Norikazu Okako (Tokyo) and Yuki Tada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply apparatus includes: a power supply terminal receiving an input voltage from outside; first and second step-down circuits respectively generating first and second output voltages to be supplied to a memory device; first and second coupling lines coupling the power supply terminal and the first and second step-down circuits, respectively; a step-up circuit disposed on the first coupling line at a location between th...