US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 1 for "Apparatuses and methods for shared row and column address buses" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,586, issued on July 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for shared row and column address buses" was invented by Hiroshi Akamatsu (Atlanta) and Reuben Pradhan (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for shared row and column address buses. Row and column addresses are distributed along separate respective global buses in a central logic region of a memory. The row and column addresses are coupled through a shared address bus from the central logic region to a bank logic region. For example the row address may be provided along the shared address bus at a first time...