US Patent Issued to Astera Labs on July 22 for "High-speed DIMM slot terminator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,168, issued on July 22, was assigned to Astera Labs Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"High-speed DIMM slot terminator" was invented by David A. Cananzi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Long Yang (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Liang Xue (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motherboard implementing a T-topology bus architecture between a host controller and two or more DDR5 DIMM slots is combined with one or more DIMM terminator cards installed in at least one of the DDR5 DIMM slots to increase the performance of DDR5 DIMM memory accesses."

The patent was filed on Oct. 10, 2023, under Application No. 18/378,523.

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