US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on June 16 for "Runtime memory services in physical layer" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,235, issued on June 16, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Runtime memory services in physical layer" was invented by Tsun-Ho Liu (Bedford, Mass.), Anwar Parvez Kashem (Sudbury, Mass.), Pouya Najafi Ashtiani (Toronto) and Wei Qing Xie (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a memory controller, a physical layer (PHY), and a memory (e.g., DRAM). Data is written to and read from the memory in different manners for different memory technologies, such as using different signals or signal timings for different memory technologies....