US Patent Issued to Rambus on Aug. 4 for "DRAM cache tag probing" (California, North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,653, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"DRAM cache tag probing" was invented by Steven C. Woo (Saratoga, Calif.), Michael Raymond Miller (Raleigh, N.C.), Taeksang Song (San Jose, Calif.), Wendy Elsasser (Austin, Texas) and Maryam Babaie (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device includes functions configured to aid with operating the DRAM device as part of data caching functions. The DRAM is configured to respond to at least two types of commands. A first type of command (cache data access command) seeks to access a cache line of data, if present in the DR...