ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,586, issued on May 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Memory with extension mode" was invented by Shobhit Singhal (Bengaluru, India), Ruchi Shankar (Bengaluru, India), Sverre Brubaek (Oslo, Norway) and Praveen Kumar N (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes a main memory, an auxiliary memory, a redundancy circuit, an extension control terminal, and a multiplexer. The main memory has a line width, and includes a write data input. The auxiliary memory has the same line width as the main memory, and includes a write data input. The redundancy circuit includes and input and an output. ...