US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 12 for "Reduced power addressing" (American, Israeli Inventors)

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

"Reduced power addressing" was invented by Leon Zlotnik (Camino, Calif.) and Leonid Minz (Bear Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediate component can be provided between initiator components (from which access requests are originated) and target components (that are to be accessed via the access requests). The intermediate component can encode, decode, and/or bypass the encoding process of address bits to ensure that address bits of the access requests are in a format that is compatible with access of the respective target component."

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