US Patent Issued to Rambus on April 29 for "Failover methods and systems in three-dimensional memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,712, issued on April 29, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Failover methods and systems in three-dimensional memory device" was invented by Joohee Kim (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dongyun Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are memory systems and devices in which each memory die in a three-dimensional stack of memory dies includes drive and receive circuitry that can communicate data signals from the stack on behalf of all the memory dies in the stack. The drive and receive circuitry, if defective on one device in the stack, can be disabled and substituted with the drive and receive circuitry from...