ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,967, issued on July 22, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Data masking for pulse amplitude modulation" was invented by Keun Soo Song (Eagle, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes apparatuses and techniques for implementing data masking with pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) encoded signals of a memory circuit. In various aspects, a data mask function of a memory controller may use an unassigned or prohibited PAM signaling state for a set of data lines to indicate data masking to a memory device for a group of data bits. For example, the data mask function may alter a PAM symbol or signal le...