ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,212, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"High level instructions with lower-level assembly code style primitives within a memory appliance for accessing memory" was invented by Keith Lowery (Garland, Texas) and Vlad Fruchter (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing memory instructions including receiving a memory related command from a client system in communication with a memory appliance via a communication protocol, wherein the memory appliance comprises a processor, a memory unit controller and a plurality of memory devices coupled to said memory unit controller. The ...