US Patent Issued to RAMBUS on Aug. 4 for "Reordering memory controller" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,531, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to RAMBUS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reordering memory controller" was invented by Michael Thomas Imel (Beaverton, Ore.), Larry Arbuthnot (Portland, Ore.) and Charles J. Wilson (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller includes a request queue and associated logic for efficiently managing the request queue based on various timing constraints of the memory device. A single request queue for the memory device stores read and write requests spanning different banks of the memory device. In each memory controller cycle, selection logic may select both a row request and a column r...