ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,531, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Quad-channel DRAM" was invented by Steven C. Woo (Saratoga, Calif.) and Torsten Partsch (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DRAM includes at least four groups of memory cores and at least four memory access channel interfaces that, in a first mode, each respectively are to receive memory access commands, directed to a corresponding one of the groups of memory cores. One-half of the memory access channel interfaces are to, in a second mode, each respectively receive memory access commands, directed to a corresponding two of four of the groups of me...