ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,125, issued on April 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Self-timing read termination" was invented by Milena Tsvetkova Ivanov (Munich), Stefanie Christina Granato (Munich), Jun Tan (WeiBenfeld, Germany), Varsha Mohan (Munich), Manfred Hans Plan (Munich), Martin Brox (Munich), Morshed Mohammed (Freising, Germany), Yu Ting Wu (Taichung, Taiwan) and Juan Antonio Garrido Ocon (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices implementing self-timing read termination are described. A memory system may perform a read operation in which the memory system generates a first signal and a second sign...