US Patent Issued to Apple on July 1 for "Write arbiter circuit with per-rank allocation override mode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,566, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Write arbiter circuit with per-rank allocation override mode" was invented by Shane J. Keil (San Jose, Calif.), Gregory S. Mathews (Saratoga, Calif.) and Rakesh L. Notani (Santa Clara, 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 tur...