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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2024
Two Six Labs, Llc, Arlington, VA (US);
Idris Somoye, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Kevin Yang, Arlington, VA (US);
Two Six Labs, LLC, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A non-volatile flip flop (NVFF) incorporates a non-volatile bit into important registers and memory structures to allow a processing state to be resumed after a power down without the need to reboot or write state data to disk. An intermittent computing device, designed for periodic, rather than constant, operation, can benefit by avoiding the need to incur a formal shutdown and writing of data to disk or non-volatile memory. Similarly, no boot or reading of state data need occur when a subsequent intermittent computing cycle occurs. Flip-flop structures that store data bits employ the NVFF capability, typically amounting to around 20% of the total number of gates in the intermittent computing device. Accordingly, the number of power consuming elements is only modestly increased, and savings achieved by avoiding the need to write state data to disk or non-volatile memory.