ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,512, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Ultrahigh-bandwidth low-latency reconfigurable memory interconnects by wavelength routing" was invented by Sung-Joo Ben Yoo (Davis, Calif.), Marjan Fariborz (Davis, Calif.) and Pouya Fotouhi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a computer system. The computer system includes a plurality of processing units, a plurality of memory channels, and an arrayed waveguide grating router (AWGR). A respective processing unit is coupled to an array of tunable optical transceivers. A respective memory channel...