ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,085, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Triggering non-target on-die termination on a memory device" was invented by Rohit Nadgauda (San Jose, Calif.), Siddhesh Darne (Milpitas, Calif.), Sukneet Basuta (San Jose, Calif.) and Kyle Zerner (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may trigger a non-target on-die termination (ntODT) on non-target dies in a memory device. A controller on the storage device may send a command to a target die. When a memory device including the target die and the non-target dies, receives a chip enable (CE) signal, the target die and non...