ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,294, issued on June 3, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data lane variation compensation for data rate enhancement" was invented by Srikanth Reddy Gruddanti (Bangalore, India), David Hugh McIntyre (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ramon Apostol Mangaser (Boxborogh, Mass.), Prasant Kumar Vallur (Bangalore, India) and Manoj N. Kulkarni (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device includes a data path having multiple transmission drivers. The device also includes a controller that is configured to tune each of the transmission drivers to a signal speed of a reference transmission driver. V...