ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,107, issued on Jan. 20, 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 is provided herein, which can suppress the prolongation of a delay operation, so that the sequence using the DLL circuit to adjust the delay of the internal clock signal can be finished within a predetermined execution period. A control circuit includes a delay control unit delaying an input clock signal to generate an output clock signal based on the phase difference between the input clock signal and an o...