US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 16 for "Apparatus, memory controller, memory device, memory system, and method for clock switching and low power consumption" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,231, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus, memory controller, memory device, memory system, and method for clock switching and low power consumption" was invented by Hyungjin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jungsik Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Soongmann Shin (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an apparatus, a memory controller, a memory device, and a method for switching frequencies of clock signals to reduce power consumption, when the memory device performs an internal operation according to a command of the memory controller, a frequency of a cloc...