ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,679, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for providing asynchronous read/write support in DDR controllers" was invented by Hari Krishnan Thiruvalli Venugopalan (Bengaluru, India) and Karthik Srinivasan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for implementing asynchronous READ/WRITE operations in a Double Data Rate (DDR) controller to reduce Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) access latency. The system provides a program configurable interface to the DDR controller for pre-fetching data from a memory address of interest into cache,...