ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,214, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Command clock structure" was invented by Martin Brox (Munich), Thomas Hein (Munich) and Filippo Vitale (Dachau, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for command clock structure are described. A memory device may receive a command to determine a relationship (e.g., a phase relationship) between an external clock and an internally generated clock. In some examples, the memory device may execute the command may report (e.g., to a host device) whether the command is successfully or unsuccessfully executed. The memory device may r...