US Patent Issued to Rambus on May 13 for "Memory access during memory calibration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,920, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory access during memory calibration" was invented by Ian Shaeffer (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-rank memory system in which calibration operations are performed between a memory controller and one rank of memory while data is transferred between the controller and other ranks of memory. A memory controller performs a calibration operation that calibrates parameters pertaining to transmission of data via a first data bus between the memory controller and a memory device in a first rank...