ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,118, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sicily Merger Sub II Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Photonic memory fabric for system memory interconnection" was invented by David Lazovsky (Los Gatos, Calif.), Philip Winterbottom (San Jose, Calif.) and Martinus Bos (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is a method that includes generating a request for a data item in a memory, obtaining the data item from the memory with a photonic interface, sending the data item to a fabric using a transmit unit of the photonic interface, and routing the data item through a portion of the fabric coupled to the memory, the portion ...