US Patent Issued to Rambus on May 26 for "Compute accelerated stacked memory" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,003, issued on May 26, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Compute accelerated stacked memory" was invented by Mark D. Kellam (Siler City, N.C.), Steven C. Woo (Saratoga, Calif.), Thomas Vogelsang (Mountain View, Calif.) and John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit that includes a set of one or more logic layers that are, when the integrated circuit is stacked in an assembly with the set of stacked memory devices, electrically coupled to a set of stacked memory devices. The set of one or more logic layers include a coupled chain of processing elements. The processing eleme...