ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,283, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Interface clock management" was invented by Yuanlong Wang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The timing of the synchronous interface is controlled by a clock signal driven by a controller. The clock is toggled in order to send a command to a memory device via the interface. If there are no additional commands to be sent via the interface, the controller suspends the clock signal. When the memory device is ready, the memory device drives a signal back to the controller. The timing of this signal is not dependent upon the clock signal. Receipt of this ...