ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,501, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Address decoding method, and memory controller and semiconductor memory system using the same" was invented by Chinam Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Tae-Kyeong Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Cholmin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory system includes a memory device including plural banks, and a memory controller that generates an offset address for a first bank among the plural banks and a command indicating the offset address, based on a first request. The memory device generates a first address ...