ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,064, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"High-performance, high-capacity memory modules and systems" was invented by Suresh Rajan (San Jose, Calif.), Abhijit M. Abhyankar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ravindranath Kollipara (Palo Alto, Calif.) and David A. Secker (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are memory modules that include address-buffer components and data-buffer components that together support wide- and narrow-data modes. The address-buffer component manages communication between a memory controller and two sets of memory components. In the wide-data mode, the address-buffer ena...