US Patent Issued to RAMBUS on Jan. 20 for "Memory system for flexibly allocating compressed storage" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,152, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RAMBUS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory system for flexibly allocating compressed storage" was invented by Evan Lawrence Erickson (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system enables a host device to flexibly allocate compressed storage managed by a memory buffer device. The host device allocates a first block of host-visible addresses associated with the compressed region and a memory buffer device allocates a corresponding second block of host-visible memory. The host device may migrate uncompressed data to and from compressed storage by referencing an address in the seco...