ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,764, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multiplexed bus streak management" was invented by Kedarnath Balakrishnan (Bangalore, India) and James R. Magro (Lakeway, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller includes a command queue stage for storing decoded memory access requests, a first arbiter operable to select first decoded memory access requests for a first pseudo channel from the command queue stage, and a second arbiter operable to select second decoded memory access requests for a second pseudo channel from the command queue stage. Each of the first arbiter and ...