ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,107, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Interface for memory readout from a memory component in the event of fault" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Kenneth L. Wright (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory controllers, devices, modules, systems and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) memory component is disclosed that includes a memory core, a primary interface, and a secondary interface. The primary interface includes data input/output (I/O) circuitry and control/address (C/A) input circuitry, and accesses th...