ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,931, issued on March 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Extended address interface activate sequence using mode register write" was invented by Paul Philip Grahek (Boise, Idaho) and Jacob Walter Rice (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device is provided for implementing a mode register 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 reducing the impact on the performance of...