Meta Platforms Assigned Patent

Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,360,701) developed by Vijayrao, Narsing Krishna, Santa Clara, CA, and Petersen, Christian Markus, Golden, CO, for “memory and storage controller with integrated memory coherency interconnect.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A controller device is disclosed. The controller device comprises a communication interface that is configured to receive a data operation request via an interconnect bus. The controller device comprises an integrated interconnect protocol component that is configured to handle communication via the interconnect bus that supports coherency across a plurality of different processing devices external to the controller device. An integrated memory or storage controller component on the same controller device is configured to handle the data operation request including by being configured to manage communication with a memory or data storage device external to the controller device.”

The patent application was filed on September 2, 2020 (17/010,739).