ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,728, issued on Sept. 1, 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 an integrated circuit (IC) memory controller to control operation of an IC memory device. The IC memory device includes a memory core and internal clock circuitry. The IC memory controller includes a command interface to transmit, to the IC memory device, a read command a phase adjustment command. The phase adjustment comman...