US Patent Issued to Rambus on March 24 for "Memory module and system supporting parallel and serial access modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,617, issued on March 24, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory module and system supporting parallel and serial access modes" was invented by Scott C. Best (Palo Alto, Calif.), Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and William N. Ng (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory module can be programmed to deliver relatively wide, low-latency data in a first access mode, or to sacrifice some latency in return for a narrower data width, a narrower command width, or both, in a second access mode. The narrow, higher-latency mode requires fewer connections and traces. A controller can therefore support mo...