US Patent Issued on Nov. 3 for "Memory devices having special mode access" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,785, issued on Nov. 3.

"Memory devices having special mode access" was invented by Theodore T. Pekny (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Victor Y. Tsai (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory devices are provided that include special operating modes accessible upon receipt of a particular message from a host. One device includes a memory array, a special mode enable register, and a controller. When the controller receives a register write command to write first data into the special mode enable register and the memory device does so, the memory device operates in a first mode. When the controller receives a register write command...