US Patent Issued to WINBOND ELECTRONICS on Dec. 30 for "Control circuit and semiconductor memory device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,144, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to WINBOND ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Control circuit and semiconductor memory device" was invented by Shinya Okuno (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit includes a control unit, a delay line unit, and a detection unit. The delay line unit delays an input clock signal based on the delay amount and generates an output clock signal. The detection unit performs a detection operation to detect the number of delayed clock cycles from the input clock signal to the output clock signal. The control unit changes the delay amount during a delay operation and controls ...