Texas Instruments Assigned Patent

Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, TX, has been assigned a patent (10,930,328) developed by Bartling, Steven Craig, Plano, TX, and Khanna, Sudhanshu, Richardson, TX, for a “processing device with nonvolatile logic array backup.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A processing device is operated using a plurality of volatile storage elements. N groups of M volatile storage elements of the plurality of volatile storage elements per group are connected to an N by M size non-volatile logic element array of a plurality of non-volatile logic element arrays using a multiplexer. The multiplexer connects one of the N groups to the N by M size non-volatile logic element array to store data from the M volatile storage elements into a row of the N by M size non-volatile logic element array at one time or to write data to the M volatile storage elements from a row of the N by M size non-volatile logic element array at one time. A corresponding non-volatile logic controller controls the multiplexer operation with respect to the connections between volatile storage elements and non-volatile storage elements.”

The patent application was filed on November 5, 2019 (16/674,525).