ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,929, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Lodestar Licensing Group LLC (Evanston, Ill.).

"Centralized placement of command address signals in devices and systems" was invented by Kazuhiro Yoshida (Tokyo) and Kumiko Ishii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices are disclosed. A device may include a command address (CA) interface including a first pair of input circuits arranged in a first direction. The CA interface further including at least one additional pair of input circuits arranged in a second direction relative to the first pair of input circuits. Associated systems are also disclosed."

The patent was filed on Aug. 4, 2023,...