ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,341, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Memory controller with speculative precursor commands" was invented by Thomas H. Hamilton (Hutto, Texas), Matthew Derrick Garrett (Austin, Texas) and Manan Chugh (Cedar Park, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller includes a command scheduler, a timer and an interface configured to transmit memory access commands, including primary and secondary precursor memory access commands, to a memory. The command scheduler selects memory access commands associated with memory access requests. The timer indicates expiration of first and second time p...