ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,568, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Semiconductor memory systems with on-die data buffering" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Amir Amirkhany (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Suresh Rajan (San Jose, Calif.), Mohammad Hekmat (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dinesh Patil (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory system includes a first semiconductor memory die and a second semiconductor memory die. The first semiconductor memory die includes a primary data interface to receive an input data stream during write operations and to deserialize the input data stream...