ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,291, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing device having sub-processor for data evacuation process" was invented by Satofumi Kurisu (Nagoya, Japan), Kosuke Ohashi (Kiyosu, Japan), Ryo Anan (Toyota, Japan), Ryota Nakabayashi (Nagoya, Japan), Nobutaka Suzuki (Toyota, Japan) and Kiyoto Suzuki (Tokoname, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing device includes a CPU, DRAM, SRAM and hibernation circuitry. The hibernation circuit executes an evacuation processing of reading out particular data which is data stored in DRAM and storing the particular data in S...