ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,729, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to RAMBUS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Local internal discovery and configuration of individually selected and jointly selected devices" was invented by John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller interfaces with one or more memory devices having configurable width data buses and configurable connectivity between data pins of the memory devices and data pins of the memory controller. Upon initialization of the memory devices, the memory controller automatically discovers the connectivity configuration of the one or more memory devices, including both indiv...