ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,666, issued on April 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Frame packing using stored templates" was invented by Nikesh Agarwal (Boise, Idaho) and Chandana Manjula Linganaa (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a protocol controller for packing a frame includes selecting, based on current contents of at least one message buffer, a stored packing template, and packing the frame in accordance with the selected packing template. The packing comprises packing each slot of the frame with a respective request (e.g., read request, write request) from the message buffer in accordance with the...