US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Feb. 3 for "Methods and apparatus to reduce read-modify-write cycles for non-aligned writes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,468, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to reduce read-modify-write cycles for non-aligned writes" was invented by Naveen Bhoria (Plano, Texas), Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas) and Pete Michael Hippleheuser (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to reduce read-modify-write cycles for non-aligned writes. An example apparatus includes a memory that includes a plurality of memory banks, an interface configured to be coupled to a central processing unit, the interface to obtain a write operati...