ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,244, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Interleaving of heterogeneous memory targets" was invented by Anand K. Enamandram (Folsom, Calif.), Rita Deepak Gupta (Cedar Park, Texas), Robert A. Branch (Portland, Ore.) and Kerry Vander Kamp (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising a first memory interface of a first type to couple to at least one first memory device; a second memory interface of a second type to couple to at least one second memory device; and circuitry to interleave memory requests targeting contiguous memory addresses among the at least one first memory d...