ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,784, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Bus training with interconnected dice" was invented by Yang Lu (Boise, Idaho), Creston M. Dupree (San Jose, Calif.), Smruti Subhash Jhaveri (Boise, Idaho), Hyun Yoo Lee (Boise, Idaho), John Christopher Sancon (Boise, Idaho), Kang-Yong Kim (Boise, Idaho) and Francesco Douglas Verna-Ketel (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described apparatuses and methods facilitate bus training with multiple dice, such as multiple memory dice. A controller can communicate with multiple dice to perform bus training by sending a test pattern and receiving in retur...