ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,196, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Memory device bandwidth optimization" was invented by Gregory S. Mathews (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shane J. Keil (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for scheduling memory operations are disclosed in which alternate read/write commands within a multi-bank memory operation are delayed beyond a minimum timing parameter in order to increase memory data bus utilization. The remaining read/write commands are not delayed beyond the minimum timing parameter. Every other clock cycle (e.g., even clock cycles) within the memory operation is reserved for...