ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,021, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Memory-interface converter chip" was invented by Young deok Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Pyeongwoo Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Vipin Kumar Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device including a memory interface chip. In some embodiments, the storage device includes: a controller integrated circuit; a first memory die; and a first converter integrated circuit, the first converter integrated circuit having a first external interface and a second external interface, the first external interface being a serial interfa...