ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,690, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"High speed optical links for high-bandwidth memory systems" was invented by Horia Alexandru Toma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zuowei Shen (Los Altos, Calif.), Ilyas Mohammed (San Jose, Calif.), Yingying Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and William F. Edwards Jr. (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology generally relates to high bandwidth memory (HBM) packages and processor packages that have optical connectivity. Disclosed systems and methods herein allow for HBM dies that are interconnected with an optical interface in a manner that allows for compa...