ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,876, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Topology-based dynamic address assignment of semiconductor memory devices" was invented by John Christopher M. Sancon (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and apparatuses for a topology-based dynamic address assignment (DAA) of semiconductor memory devices (e.g., dynamic random access memory (DRAM)). The memory devices may be connected via a daisy chain arrangement that forms a sideband bus. During a DAA process, the topology-based DAA assigns addresses to the memory devices based on their placement on the daisy cha...