ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,803, issued on June 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory controller architecture" was invented by Emanuele Confalonieri (Segrate, Italy), Stephen S. Pawlowski (Beaverton, Ore.) and Patrick Estep (Rowlett, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include a plurality of memory devices and a memory controller coupled to the plurality of memory devices via a plurality of memory channels. The plurality of memory channels are organized as a plurality of channel groups. The memory controller comprises a plurality of memory access request/response buffer sets, and each memory access request/response...