ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,458, issued on April 7, was assigned to Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Write leveling in DDR memory device and operating method thereof" was invented by Jian-Sing Liou (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shu-Han Nien (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A write leveling system includes a frequency divider, a signal processing circuit, and a data control circuit. The frequency divider is arranged to perform a frequency dividing operation upon a clock signal to generate multiple frequency-divided clock signals. The signal processing circuit is arranged to perform signal processing upon a data stro...