ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,466, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Compute Express Link memory and storage module" was invented by William Thanos (Boise, Idaho) and Jeremy Werner (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include control circuitry, a non-volatile memory device, and a volatile memory device. The control circuitry can be configured to receive a command presented according to a compute express link (CXL) protocol. The control circuitry can be further configured to cause data to be written to the non-volatile memory device or the volatile memory device, or both, in response to receipt of t...