ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,600, issued on June 3, was assigned to Mosaid Technologies Inc. (Ottawa).

"Clock mode determination in a memory system" was invented by Peter B. Gillingham (Ottawa) and Graham Allan (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock mode configuration circuit for a memory device. A memory system includes any number of memory devices serially connected to each other, where each memory device receives a clock signal. The clock signal can be provided either in parallel to all the memory devices or serially from memory device to memory device through a common clock input. The clock mode configuration circuit in each memory device...