ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,362, issued on July 7, was assigned to Macronix International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Managing status output" was invented by Chin-Hung Chang (Tainan, Taiwan), Chia-Jung Chen (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Ken-Hui Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, methods, and circuits for managing status output are provided. In one aspect, a semiconductor device includes: a memory array configured to store data and a circuitry coupled to the memory array and configured to execute a read operation in the memory array and output a read packet based on a result of the execution of the read operation. The read packet inclu...