ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,404, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Command-differentiated storage of internally and externally sourced data" was invented by Thomas J. Sheffler (San Francisco), Lawrence Lai (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Peng (San Jose, Calif.) and Bohuslav Rychlik (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device having a DRAM core and a register stores first data in the register before receiving first and second memory access commands via a command interface and before receiving second data via a data interface. The memory device responds to the first memory access command by writing the first data from the r...