ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,633, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Non-target on-die termination" was invented by Jang Woo Lee (San Ramon, Calif.), Siddhesh Darne (Milpitas, Calif.) and Venkatesh Ramachandra (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for a memory system having on-die termination (ODT) in a non-target memory die. A read enable path of a first die and a data strobe path of a second die are connected to a first electrical line. However, a data strobe path of the second die and a read enable path of the first die are connected to a second electrical line. Each die contains detection c...