ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,529, issued on March 31, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Protocol including timing calibration between memory request and data transfer" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Holden Jessup (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described embodiments provide a system for controlling an integrated circuit memory device by a memory controller. During operation, the system sends a memory-access request from the memory controller to the memory device using a first link. After sending the memory-access request, the memory controller sends to the memory device a command that specifi...