ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,883, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Stacked device system" was invented by Steven C. Woo (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple device stacks are interconnected in a ring topology. The inter-device stack communication may utilize a handshake protocol. This ring topology may include the host so that the host may initialize and load the device stacks with data and/or commands (e.g., software, algorithms, etc.). The inter-device stack interconnections may also be configured to include/remove the host and/or to implement varying numbers of separate ring topologies. By configuring th...