ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,789, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatus with timing control for a die grouping" was invented by Mark K. Hadrick (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to die-to-die communications are described. An apparatus may include a master die and a slave die communicatively coupled to each other through an internal bus. The apparatus can be configured to use an internal command/or a data clock to coordinate the storage/write operation at the slave die instead of or in addition to a command address clock."

The patent was filed on July 19, 2022, unde...