US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 14 for "Nonvolatile memory access via memory interconnect systems" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,648, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Nonvolatile memory access via memory interconnect systems" was invented by Rohit Sehgal (Boise, Idaho), Eishan Mirakhur (Boise, Idaho), Vishal Tanna (Boise, Idaho) and Rohit Sindhu (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory card, for use with a host system, combines both: (i) non-volatile memory express (NVMe) data storage such as a solid state drive (SSD) with (ii) dynamic random access memory (DRAM) conforming to the computer express link (CXL) protocol. The SSD and CXL DRAM share a common controller. CXL memory requests from the host system ...