ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,733, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for load balancing memory traffic" was invented by Przemek Guzy (Oakville, Canada), Sheran Cardoza (Scarborough, Canada) and Shan Liu (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes first and second memory controller circuits and a load balancing multiplexer circuit that redirects a first read operation from the first memory controller circuit to the second memory controller circuit in response to receiving an indication that the second memory controller circuit has available memory bandwidth. A circuit system includes...