US Patent Issued to Rambus on May 12 for "Signal receiver with skew-tolerant strobe gating" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,740, issued on May 12, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Signal receiver with skew-tolerant strobe gating" was invented by Andrew M. Fuller (Durham, N.C.), Robert E. Palmer (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Thomas J. Giovannini (San Jose, Calif.), Michael D. Bucher (Carrboro, N.C.) and Thoai Thai Le (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first-in-first-out (FIFO) storage structure within an integrated-circuit component is loaded with qualification values corresponding to respective pairs of edges expected within a timing strobe signal transmitted to the integrated-circuit component. The qualification values are sequentially ou...