ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,246, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Apparatus operating in geardown mode" was invented by Navya Sri Sreeram (Plano, Texas) and Kallol Mazumder (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to an apparatus implementing a geardown mode in a parallel pipeline configuration. The apparatus can include mechanisms to manage signal timing across multiple data processing pipelines for different communication speeds. While operating in a geardown mode, the apparatus can capture a sync pulse in two or more data pipelines. The apparatus can identify the pipeline that fi...