Apple Assigned Patent

Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,270,246) developed by Ofir Shalvi, Ra’anana, Israel, for "optimized selection of memory chips in multi-chips memory devices."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method includes accepting a definition of a type of multi-unit memory device including a set of memory units, each having a respective nominal storage capacity, the definition specifying a target memory size of the memory device such that a sum of nominal storage capacities of the memory units in the set is equal to the target memory size. A plurality of the memory units is accepted. The memory units have respective actual storage capacities, at least some of which differ from the respective nominal storage capacity. Multi-unit memory devices including respective sets of the memory units are assembled, such that at least one of the sets includes at least a first memory unit having a first actual capacity that is less than the respective nominal capacity and at least a second memory unit having a second actual capacity that is greater than the nominal capacity."

The patent application was filed on Nov. 4, 2008 (12/680,901).