ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,440, issued on Aug. 4.
"Offset cancellation" was invented by Martin Brox (Munich), Wolfgang Anton Spirkl (Germering, Germany), Thomas Hein (Munich), Michael Dieter Richter (Ottobrunn, Germany) and Peter Mayer (Neubiberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for offset cancellation are described. A memory device may determine that a channel is in a state that interrupts an active termination of the channel and enable the calibration of a reference voltage (e.g., by the memory device). For example, a channel used for data communications with a second device (e.g., a controller) may initially be in a s...