US Patent Issued to SK hynix on July 1 for "Pipe register and semiconductor apparatus including the pipe register" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,517, issued on July 1, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Pipe register and semiconductor apparatus including the pipe register" was invented by Heon Ki Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Kyeong Min Chae (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipe register includes: a plurality of register units configured to output data in response to control signals; and a pipe control circuit configured to generate a reference timing signal by dividing a clock signal, the clock signal activated during an activation time of a read enable signal, and generate the control signals based on the read enable signal an...