US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 3 for "Memory devices and systems configured to communicate a delay signal and methods for operating the same" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,457, issued on March 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory devices and systems configured to communicate a delay signal and methods for operating the same" was invented by Sujeet Ayyapureddi (Boise, Idaho) and Randall J. Rooney (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory devices, systems including memory devices, and methods of operating memory devices are described in which waterfall attacks can be prevented from degrading data by alerting a memory controller that the memory device requests time to perform internal management operations, and should not be sent any further commands (e.g., activate ...