US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 9 for "Status polling based on die-generated pulsed signal" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,631, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Status polling based on die-generated pulsed signal" was invented by Eric N. Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Dheeraj Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a ready busy pin coupled with a plurality of dice and a processing device coupled with the ready busy pin. The processing device is to perform controller operations including waiting to perform any status checks until after assertion of a pulse on a status indicator signal received from the ready busy pin; detecting the pulse being asserted is an extended pulse...