Sony Semiconductor Solutions Assigned Patent

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan, has been assigned a patent (12159670) developed by Hiraga; Keizo, Kanagawa, Japan, for a “non-volatile storage circuit.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A non-volatile storage circuit (10) of an embodiment includes a volatile storage unit (11) that stores information, a non-volatile storage unit (20) into which the information in the volatile storage unit is written by a store operation, and from which the information is read out to the volatile storage unit (11) by a restore operation via a restore path different from a store path in the store operation, a driver unit (12, 15) that receives a power supply and performs the store operation, and a switch unit (13, 14, 16, 17) that shuts off the power supply to the driver unit (12, 15) during the restore operation.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-10-16 (17/766568).