ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,009, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Concurrent write data strobe and reference voltage calibrations" was invented by Robert E. Jeter (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jingkui Zheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David A. Knopf (San Jose, Calif.), Satish B. Dulam (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kai Lun Hsiung (Fremont, Calif.), Venkata Ramana Malladi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rahul Ranjan (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for performing a write data strobe concurrent with a reference voltage calibration is disclosed. A memory controller circuit is configured to convey a write clock signal to a memory...