US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 14 for "Efficient command protocol" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,644, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Efficient command protocol" was invented by Kang-Yong Kim (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes apparatuses and techniques for an efficient command protocol for memory access. In various aspects, a memory controller may implement combined operations of different command types (e.g., an activation command plus a read, an activation command plus a write, or an activation command plus a pre-charge command) to better utilize a multiple clock ratio of a command bus (e.g., a (1.5+0.5)N operation in a dual clocking WCK2CK ratio of ...