US Patent Issued to Rambus on March 31 for "Buffer circuit with adaptive repair capability" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,296, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Buffer circuit with adaptive repair capability" was invented by Scott C. Best (Palo Alto, Calif.), John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Paul William Roukema (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buffer circuit is disclosed. The buffer circuit includes a command address (C/A) interface to receive an incoming activate (ACT) command an incoming column address strobe (CAS) command. A first match circuit includes first storage to store failure row address information associated with the memory, and first compare logic. The first compare logic is ...