ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,174, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Fuse delay of a command in a memory package" was invented by Christopher G. Wieduwilt (Boise, Idaho), Lawrence D. Smith (Boise, Idaho) and James S. Rehmeyer (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fuses can store different delay states to cause execution of a command to be staggered for different memory dies of a memory package. Fuse arrays can be included in the memory package and programmed to cause execution of a command to be delayed by different amounts for different dies. The fuse arrays can be fabricated and then programmed to cause differen...