ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,853, issued on Nov. 4.

"Apparatuses and methods including multilevel command address signals" was invented by Kang-Yong Kim (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multilevel command address (CA) signals are used to provide commands and memory addresses from a controller to a memory system. Using multilevel signals CA signals may allow for using fewer signals compared to binary signals to represent a same number of commands and/or address space, or using a same number of multilevel CA signals to represent a larger number of commands and/or address space. A number of external command/address terminals may be reduced without reduci...