ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,348, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Signal locking" was invented by Gyan Prakash (Bangalore, India) and Jose Rey C. De Luna (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a memory device interface, a first operation command targeted for receipt by a memory device coupled to the memory device interface causing, responsive to receiving the first operation command, a chip enable signal to be asserted in a first state to filter commands received by the memory device interface that are targeted for subsequent receipt by the memory device, receiving, by the memory de...