US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 4 for "Read arbiter circuit with dual memory rank support" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,594, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Read arbiter circuit with dual memory rank support" was invented by Shane J. Keil (San Jose, Calif.), Gregory S. Mathews (Saratoga, Calif.) and Lakshmi Narasimha Murthy Nukala (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory control circuit coupled to multiple memory ranks may receive read and write requests for a different ranks of the multiple memory ranks. The memory control may allocate write requests to different slots based on the write requests target memory rank, and may adjust the number of slots available for a given memory rank during a write...