ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,872, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for generating clock signals" was invented by Osamu Nagashima (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshinori Matsui (Kanagawa, Japan), Keun Soo Song (Boise, Idaho), Hiroki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Shunichi Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock generator circuit may generate internal data clock signals, such as quadrature phase clock signals, based at least in part, on one clock signal responsive, at least in part, to another clock signal. The internal data clock signals may be generated from a system clock signal responsive to a...