ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,843, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Chipset attached random access memory" was invented by William Robert Alverson (Del Valle, Texas), Amitabh Mehra (Fort Collins, Colo.), Jerry Anton Ahrens (Sister Bay, Wis.), Grant Evan Ley (Eden, Utah), Anil Harwani (Austin, Texas) and Joshua Taylor Knight (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Random access memory (RAM) is attached to an input/output (I/O) controller of a chipset (e.g., on a motherboard). This chipset attached RAM is optionally used as part of a tiered storage solution with other tiers including, for example, nonvol...