US Patent Issued to Rambus on March 11 for "Memory controller with staggered request signal output" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,392, issued on March 11, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory controller with staggered request signal output" was invented by Ian P. Shaeffer (Los Gatos, Calif.), Bret Stott (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Benedict C. Lau (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller includes a register to store phase offset value. The phase offset value represents a phase relationship between a memory request signal component and a reference signal. The phase offset value is established through write and read back testing. Transmit circuitry applies the phase offset value in launching the memory request signal co...