US Patent Issued to Intel on June 3 for "Double fetch for long burst length memory data transfer" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,634, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Double fetch for long burst length memory data transfer" was invented by Kuljit S. Bains (Olympia, Wash.) and Bill Nale (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a memory device where a data fetch accesses N/2 data bits, and the memory device is to transfer N bits over a data burst of length M in response to a read command, the memory device accesses the same bank twice to access the N bits. Instead of accessing N/2 bits from two different banks, the memory device accesses a single bank twice. The memory device can control the timing of the data tra...