US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 2 for "Combining read requests having spatial locality" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,906, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Combining read requests having spatial locality" was invented by Nikesh Agarwal (Boise, Idaho) and Robert M. Walker (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system comprising a communication interface between a host and a device, wherein the header of a first memory request transmitted on the forward link of the communication interface encodes, in a bit vector, addresses to be read for a plurality of second memory requests. Combining one or more read requests with another request such that a single request header is transmitted for a plu...