ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,356, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).
"Memory tunneling interface" was invented by Jon D. Trantham (Chanhassen, Minn.), Steven Scott Williams (Longmont, Colo.), Paul M. Wiggins (Longmont, Colo.) and Thomas V. Spencer (Fort Collins, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a memory device, a memory controller, or both that can communicate via memory standard interfaces. However, the memory device may have physical memory that does not comply with the memory standard by itself. Disclosed herein are solutions that allow various non-standard types of memory, or emerging mem...