ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,864, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Timing-drift calibration" was invented by Yohan U. Frans (Palo Alto, Calif.), Wayne F. Ellis (Jericho Center, Vt.) and Akash Bansal (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to components of a memory system that support timing-drift calibration. In specific embodiments, this memory system contains a memory device (or multiple devices) which includes a clock distribution circuit and an oscillator circuit which can generate a frequency, wherein a change in the frequency is indicative of a timing drift of the clock distribut...