ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,601, issued on May 6, was assigned to Rambus inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Bus distribution using multiwavelength multiplexing" was invented by Mark D. Kellam (Siler City, N.C.), Dongyun Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Thomas Vogelsang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Steven C. Woo (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Command/address and timing information is distributed to buffer integrated circuits on a module using multiple wavelengths of light modulated with the same information. Each individual wavelength of modulated light carrying command/address information is received by a corresponding single buffer device that deserializes the...