US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 12 for "Activate information on preceding precharge command" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,648, issued on May 12, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Activate information on preceding precharge command" was invented by Kwang-Ho Cho (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device is provided for utilizing unused valid (V) bits residing on a previous command to transmit additional activate information to a memory device. Additional activate information may be transmitted to the memory device without increasing the tRCD time, or increasing the command/address (CA) bus pins, or adding additional circuit area, thereby reducing the impact on the performance of the memory device."

The patent...