ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,607, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Variable memory access granularity" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated-circuit memory component receives, as part of respective first and second memory read transactions, a first column access command that identifies a first volume of data and a second column read command that identifies a second volume of data, the second volume of data being constituted by not more than half as many data bits as the first volume of data. In response to receiving the first column access command, the integrated-...