ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,835, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device capable of synchronizing clock signals in CS geardown mode" was invented by Seunghwan Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jang-Woo Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a chip select signal flip-flop configured to: latch a chip select signal in-sync with a first propagation clock signal, and output a first chip select enable signal, and latch the chip select signal in-sync with a second propagation clock signal having a phase opposite to a phase of the first propag...