ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,132, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices related to generation of internal commands" was invented by Hyun Seung Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a skip exit control circuit configured to select one of a plurality of skip signals as a selection skip signal, responsive to a test mode signal, and generate a skip exit signal, responsive to the selection skip signal, a mode control circuit configured to generate a mode signal to change the mode responsive to the skip exit signal until entering a preset final mode, and a ...