ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,695, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to WINBOND ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor memory with adjustment circuit and method for controlling a semiconductor memory" was invented by Kaoru Mori (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory is provided to include an adjustment circuit. The adjustment circuit sets a second period longer than a first period and adjusts time at which the last read data is output. When a chip selection signal is set to be asserted, the semiconductor memory device performs a read operation on data according to an external clock signal. The first period begins at a r...