ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,646, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Mode register update (MRUPD) mode" was invented by Saravanan Sethuraman (Portland, Ore.) and Tonia M. Rose (Wendell, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration register update mode can be implemented as an MRUPD (mode register update) mode for a DRAM (dynamic random access memory) device. In one example, the MRUPD can also be applied to update an RCD (registering clock driver). In the update mode, the memory device (either the RCD or the DRAM) can perform configuration of any number of configuration registers with in-band register writes. The in-band...