US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 2 for "Detecting data bus drive faults" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,531, issued on June 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Detecting data bus drive faults" was invented by Melissa I. Uribe (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for memory operations are described. A pin associated with communicating error correction information may be biased, via a first circuit, to a first voltage level by a first voltage source that is coupled with the pin when the pin is in an idle state. Also, a set of data pins may be biased, via a second circuit, to a second voltage level by a second voltage source when the set of data pins is in the idle sta...