ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,243, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device performing recursive ZQ calibration and calibration method thereof" was invented by Younggyu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Tongsung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungjun Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seonkyoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Taesung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device may include an impedance adjustment pad, a dummy pull-down driver and an external resistor connected in parallel between the impedance adjustment pad and a ground, a recursive code ge...