ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,244, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hybrid memory" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid memory includes cache of relatively fast and durable dynamic, random-access memory (DRAM) in service of a larger amount of relatively slow and wear-sensitive flash memory. An address buffer on the module maintains a static random-access memory (SRAM) cache of addresses for data cached in DRAM."

The patent was filed on July 19, 2024, under Application No. 18/778,251.

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