ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,172, issued on June 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Link evaluation for a memory device" was invented by Markus Balb (Ottobrunn, Germany), Thomas Hein (Munich) and Heinz Hoenigschmid (Poecking, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for link evaluation for a memory device are described. A memory device may receive signaling over a channel and may identify logic values encoded into the signaling based on sampling the signaling against a reference voltage. The sampling may occur at a reference time within a sampling period. To evaluate a quality (e.g., margin of error) of the ch...