ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,173, issued on April 14, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Serial presence detect logging" was invented by Aws Shallal (Cary, N.C.) and Chen Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A serial presence detect (SPD) device includes a region of nonvolatile memory for SPD data and an additional region for other (e.g., vendor) use. The additional region may be subdivided into write protect regions that can be individually and independently write protected. To configure the write protection, a password key scheme is used to enter a mode whereby the write protection attributes may be configured. Another password...