ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,288, issued on June 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Asymmetric read-write sequence for interconnected dies" was invented by Hyun Yoo Lee (Boise, Idaho), Kang-Yong Kim (Boise, Idaho), Jason McBride Brown (Austin, Texas), Venkatraghavan Bringivijayaraghavan (Hyderabad, India) and Vijayakrishna J. Vankayala (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and techniques for implementing an asymmetric read-write sequence for interconnected dies are described. The asymmetric read-write sequence refers to an asymmetric die-access sequence for read versus write operations. The "asymmetric" term refers to a ...