AutoChips Assigned Patent

AutoChips Inc., Hefei, Anhui Province, China, has been assigned a patent (10,162,570) developed by Chen, Songlin, Hefei Anhui, China, for “methods and apparatuses of compensating for delays caused by an extension line of a storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Methods and apparatuses of compensating for delays of a storage device are disclosed. The method includes: performing a communication operation a preset number of times with the storage device through the extension line, each time if a correct response is received from the storage device, recording a status value of the current communication operation as a first value, otherwise recording as a second value, to obtain a resultant data string, searching, in the resultant data string, for a longest data segment comprised of the continuous first values, taking a delay value of the communication operation corresponding to the status value at the middle position of the longest data segment as an optimal delay value, and setting the optimal delay value as a phase difference between a source clock and a sampling clock of the storage device to compensate for the delays caused by the extension line of the storage device.”

The patent application was filed on November 2, 2016 (15/341,620).