ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,921, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Divided clock control" was invented by Jongtae Kwak (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for divided clock control are described. An even clock signal associated with transitioning edges of even-indexed pulses of a global clock signal and an odd clock signal associated with transitioning edges of odd-indexed pulses of a global clock signal may be received. An indication of whether a received command was received on a transitioning edge of an even-indexed pulse may be received. Based on the indication, whether to enabl...