US Patent Issued to Rambus on May 27 for "Memory controller operable in data loop-back mode" (Texas, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,113, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory controller operable in data loop-back mode" was invented by Frederick A Ware (Los Altos Hills, Texas), Robert E. Palmer (Chapel Hill, Calif.), John W. Poulton (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Andrew M. Fuller (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller component of a memory system stores memory access requests within a transaction queue until serviced so that, over time, the transaction queue alternates between occupied and empty states. The memory controller transitions the memory system to a low power mode in response to detecting the transac...