ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,842, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Memory module register access" was invented by Thomas J. Giovannini (San Jose, Calif.), Catherine Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Scott C. Best (Palo Alto, Calif.), John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During system initialization, each data buffer device and/or memory device on a memory module is configured with a unique (at least to the module) device identification number. In order to access a single device (rather than multiple buffers and/or memory devices), a target identification num...