US Patent Issued to Rambus on Jan. 28 for "Memory modules and systems with variable-width data ranks and configurable data-rank timing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,467, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory modules and systems with variable-width data ranks and configurable data-rank timing" was invented by Thomas J. Giovannini (San Jose, Calif.), John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Catherine Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system supports single- and dual-memory-module configurations, both supporting point-to-point communication between a host (e.g., a memory controller) and the memory module or modules. Each memory module includes an address-buffer component, data-buffer components, and two sets of memory dies, each s...