Arizona Board of Regents/Arizona State University Assigned Patent

Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ, has been assigned a patent (10,795,809) developed by Yang, Jinghua, Tempe, AZ, Vrudhula, Sarma, Chandler, AZ, and Dengi, Aykut, Tempe, AZ, for a “non-volatile logic device for energy-efficient logic state restoration.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A non-volatile logic device for energy-efficient logic state restoration is disclosed. The non-volatile logic device incorporates a volatile flip-flop and a non-volatile storage unit to achieve on-chip non-volatile storage. The non-volatile logic device further allows for a backup time to be determined on a per-chip basis, resulting in minimizing energy wastage and satisfying a given yield constraint.”

The patent application was filed on January 10, 2019 (16/244,613).