US Patent Issued on Jan. 13 for "Methods for providing device status in response to read commands directed to write-only mode register bits and memory devices and systems employing the same" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,266, issued on Jan. 13.

"Methods for providing device status in response to read commands directed to write-only mode register bits and memory devices and systems employing the same" was invented by Matthew A. Prather (Boise, Idaho) and Randall J. Rooney (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory devices, memory systems, and methods of operating the same are disclosed in which a memory device, in response to receiving a mode register read (MRR) command directed to one or more write-only bits of a mode register, reads data indicative of a status of the memory device about the memory device from one or more cells of a memory a...