US Patent Issued to RAMBUS on March 11 for "On-die termination of address and command signals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,399, issued on March 11, was assigned to RAMBUS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"On-die termination of address and command signals" was invented by Ian Shaeffer (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Kyung Suk Oh (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a set of inputs, and a first register that includes a first register field to store a value for enabling application of one of a plurality of command/address (CA) on-die termination (ODT) impedance values to first inputs that receive the CA signals; and a second register field to store a value for enabling application of one of a plurality of chip select (CS) ODT impedanc...