US Patent Issued to Rambus on Aug. 12 for "Protocol including selective output by memory of a timing reference signal" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,763, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Protocol including selective output by memory of a timing reference signal" was invented by Ian Shaeffer (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Thomas J. Giovannini (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for operation of a memory controller, memory device and system are described. During operation, the memory controller transmits a read command which specifies that a memory device output data accessed from a memory core. This read command contains information which specifies whether the memory device is to commence outputting of a timing referen...