ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,649, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"On-die termination optimization" was invented by Douglas S. Winterberg (York, S.C.), V Mallikarjun Goud (Secunderabad, India) and Bhyrav Mutnury (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver includes an ODT network and a signal eye sampler. The ODT network terminates a data communication interface at a selectable impedance including a nominal impedance, at least one higher impedance, and at least one lower impedance. The signal eye sampler determines an eye margin for data received on the data communication interface. The receiver selects the no...