ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,241, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices for calibrating phase of division clock" was invented by Chang Hyun Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a command decoder configured to generate a block command, based on a command address, and a clock division circuit configured to divide an internal clock and an inverted internal clock to generate division clocks. In the present disclosure, the clock division circuit is configured to stop generating the division clocks for a block section when the block command is generated."

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