ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,285, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Compressed memory buffer device" was invented by Evan Lawrence Erickson (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Christopher Haywood (Cary, N.C.) and Craig E. Hampel (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buffer integrated circuit (IC) chip is disclosed. The buffer IC chip includes host interface circuitry to receive a request from at least one host. The request includes at least one command to perform a memory compression operation on first uncompressed data that is stored in a first memory region. Compression circuitry, in response to the at least one command, compres...