US Patent Issued to Winbond Electronics on June 24 for "Delay control circuit, semiconductor memory device, and delay control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,523, issued on June 24, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Delay control circuit, semiconductor memory device, and delay control method" was invented by Shinya Okuno (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a delay control circuit that can prevent an N-value detection sequence performed by the delay control circuit from exceeding a specific period. The delay control circuit includes: a DLL control circuit that sets a delay amount; a delay line circuit that performs a delay operation; and an N-value detection circuit that receives an input clock signal and an output clock signal and is co...