ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,687, issued on July 8, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Command address control circuit, and semiconductor apparatus and semiconductor system including the command address control circuit" was invented by Ji Hwan Park (Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Kyung Hoon Kim (Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Se Ra Jeong (Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Ha Jun Jeong (Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jae Hoon Cha (Icheon-si Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A command address control circuit includes a command decoding circuit, an error decision circuit, and a shifting circuit. The...