ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,450, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for accessing memory devices using virtual memory ranks" was invented by Ramkumar Jayaraman (Bangalore, India), Saravanan Sethuraman (Georgetown, Malaysia), Diyanesh Babu Chinnakkonda Vidyapoornachary (Bangalore, India) and Krishnaprasad H (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a first set of memory devices, a second set of memory devices, and a memory controller circuit system. The memory controller circuit system groups a first one of the memory devices in each of the first and the second sets into a firs...