US Patent Issued to Two Six Labs on March 3 for "Non-volatile processor circuit" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,553, issued on March 3, was assigned to Two Six Labs LLC (Arlington, Va.).

"Non-volatile processor circuit" was invented by Idris Somoye (Silver Spring, Md.) and Kevin Yang (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile flip flop (NVFF) incorporates a non-volatile bit into important registers and memory structures to allow a processing state to be resumed after a power down without the need to reboot or write state data to disk. An intermittent computing device, designed for periodic, rather than constant, operation, can benefit by avoiding the need to incur a formal shutdown and writing of data to disk or non-volatile...