Allegro MicroSystems Assigned Patent

Allegro MicroSystems, LLC, Manchester, NH, has been assigned a patent (10,929,252) developed by Cesaretti, Juan Manuel, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Milesi, Alejandro Gabriel, Buenos Aires, Argentina, for “circuit and method for storing information in non-volatile memory during a loss of power event .“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A data storage circuit for storing data from volatile memory in response to a power loss, the data storage circuit including an input for receiving a power loss signal in response to a power loss from at least one power source, an input configured to receive data from a volatile memory, a single block of non-volatile matrix of memory cells and a driver circuit coupled to said single row of non-volatile matrix of memory cells. The driver circuit is configured to write data to and read data from said single block of non-volatile matrix of memory cells. The single block of non-volatile matrix of memory cells can be provided as a single row electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM).”

The patent application was filed on August 14, 2019 (16/540,409).