ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,561, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Signal processing circuit, semiconductor apparatus and data processing system including the signal processing circuit" was invented by Jae Young Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Moon Soo Sung (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing circuit includes a plurality of first pads, a second pad, and a signal processing logic circuit. The plurality of first pads is assigned to input and output data, commands, and addresses. The signal processing logic circuit identifies a received request based on a combination of a first signa...