US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 20 for "Recycled fine granularity counter-based RAS chain" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,704, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Recycled fine granularity counter-based RAS chain" was invented by Bryan David Kerstetter (Kuna, Idaho) and Ryan Archer Caraway (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating timing control signals for controlling the access to the memory cells of a memory device. The memory device employs a counter-based RAS chain circuit including multiple Match and Delay blocks to generate timing control signals with fine timing granularities. The Match and Delay blocks include circuits to enable area savings and improve ar...