ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,770, issued on April 29, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Dynamic random access memory-based content-addressable memory (DRAM-CAM) architecture for exact pattern matching" was invented by Lingxi Wu (Charlottesville, Va.) and Kevin Skadron (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a Dynamic Random Access Memory-Based Content-Addressable Memory (DRAM-CAM) architecture and methods relating thereto. The DRAM-CAM architecture can include a memory array, with the data organized into blocks including rows and columns. Input data can be converted into a format wit...