Lite-On Assigned Patent

Lite-On Technology Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (8,923,088) developed by Chen Yi-Jen, Chuang Chi-Sian,Lee Yi-Chung, Lu Shih-Chiang, and Tsai Ching-Chi, Hsinchu, Taiwan, for a “solid state storage device with sleep control circuit.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A solid state storage device receives a device sleep signal and a power signal from a host. The solid state storage device includes a control chip, a sleep control circuit, and a regulator. If the device sleep signal is activated, the control chip temporarily stores a system parameter into a flash memory module and then generates an acknowledge signal. The sleep control circuit receives the power signal, the device sleep signal and the acknowledge signal. If both of the device sleep signal and the acknowledge signal are activated, the sleep control circuit generates a disable state and a wake-up state. Moreover, if the power signal is received by the regulator and the sleep control circuit generates the disable state, the regulator stops providing a supply voltage to the control chip, so that the solid state storage device enters a sleep mode.”

The patent application was filed on January 30, 2013(13/753,621)