ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,558, issued on July 1, was assigned to InnoGrit Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Non-volatile memory with an arbitration function on shared status channel" was invented by Gang Zhao (Chandler, Ariz.), Jie Chen (Shanghai), Wei Jiang (Fremont, Calif.) and Lin Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a non-volatile memory and a system having a controller and two non-volatile memories. The two non-volatile memories are configured to communicate with the controller through a same channel, and to send respective status information thereof to the controller through a same line. The first non-volatile memory is co...