ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,646, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Configurable buffered I/O for memory systems" was invented by Jose Rey C. De Luna (Boise, Idaho), Suresh Rajgopal (San Diego), Jeremy Wayne Butterfield (Meridian, Idaho) and Dustin J. Carter (Placerville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure configure a system component, such as a memory sub-system controller, to provide a configurable buffer device. The configuration buffer device is coupled between a processing device and a set of memory components. The configurable buffer device can be configured based on configuratio...