ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,245, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Throttle memory as a service based on connectivity bandwidth and contents priority levels" was invented by Sean Stephen Eilert (Penryn, Calif.), Ameen D. Akel (Rancho Cordova, Calif.), Samuel E. Bradshaw (Sacramento, Calif.), Kenneth Marion Curewitz (Cameron Park, Calif.) and Dmitri Yudanov (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatuses to throttle network communications for memory as a service. In one exemplary embodiment, a computing device can borrow an amount of random access memory of the lender device over a ...