ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,971, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Activate information on preceding command" was invented by John David Porter (Boise, Idaho), Bryan David Kerstetter (Kuna, Idaho) and Kwang-Ho Cho (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device is provided for utilizing unused valid (V) bits residing on a previous command to transmit additional activate information to a memory device. Additional activate information may be transmitted to the memory device without increasing the tRCD time, or increasing the command/address (CA) bus pins, or adding additional circuit area, thereby reduci...