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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 1978
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
William H Herndon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365228 ; 365154 ; 365195 ; 365206 ; 365227 ; 307238 ;
Abstract
Circuitry that senses a drop in the power supply voltage and turns off bias voltages in the proper sequence to prevent further writing into the cells of a random access memory while permitting the cells to remain in a low supply voltage standby to retain their stored data.