ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,227, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"On-die termination" was invented by Ian Shaeffer (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Local on-die termination controllers for effecting termination of a high-speed signaling links simultaneously engage on-die termination structures within multiple integrated-circuit memory devices disposed on the same memory module, and/or within the same integrated-circuit package, and coupled to the high-speed signaling link. A termination control bus is coupled to memory devices on a module, and provides for peer-to-peer communication of termination control signa...