US Patent Issued to Altera on Sept. 16 for "Programmable memory controller circuits and methods" (Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,194, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Programmable memory controller circuits and methods" was invented by Saravanan Sethuraman (Penang, Malaysia) and Chang Kian Tan (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller circuit includes a first channel circuit having a first programmable switch circuit that is programmable to provide a first request signal indicating a first data access request to a memory circuit. The first programmable switch circuit is programmable to provide a first write data signal indicating first data for storage in the memory circuit. The memory controller...