ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,049, issued on June 10, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Stacked memory device with paired channels" was invented by Thomas Vogelsang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked memory device includes memory dies over a base die. The base die includes separate memory channels to the different dies and external channels that allow an external processor access to the memory channels. The base die allows the external processor to access multiple memory channels using more than one external channel. The base die also allows the external processor to communicate through the memory device via the externa...