ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,781, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory system with cached memory module operations" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Kenneth L. Wright (Sunnyvale, Calif.), John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Craig Hampel (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller includes an interface to couple to storage class memory (SCM) space and dynamic random access memory (DRAM) space. At least a portion of the DRAM storage space is configured as a cache for the SCM storage space. The interface to receive an incoming tag address for a read operation. Tag co...