ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,651, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Efficient training method for unmatched data output path in non-volatile memory" was invented by Abhishek Singhania (Bengaluru, India), Sajal Mittal (Bengaluru, India) and Shiv Harit Mathur (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce power consumption and circuitry requirements, the following presents an "unmatched" data output architecture, in which the clock path does not mimic the data path. To provide proper data transfers in the data output path, the clock signal is tuned at points of the clock path, such as for data transfers f...