ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,937, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device" was invented by Jungmin Bak (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangkil Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a mode register configured to store a first code for indicating termination resistance of the memory device and a second code for disabling a defective resistor, and an output driver including a plurality of pull-up units including a plurality of pull-up resistors and a plurality of pull-down units including a plurality of pull-down resistors. The output driver is configured to dis...