IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. (OTCQX: NLST) announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today issued Patent No. 10,474,595 (the '595 patent) relating to memory modules capable of handshaking with the host system in high-speed memory operations. The inventions taught in the newly issued patent cover the global RDIMM market estimated to be approximately $30 billion annually. The '595 patent is related to U.S. Patent No. 9,535,623 (the '623 patent), which Netlist asserted against SK Hynix in the current investigation at the U.S. International Trade Commission.
"The '595 patent improves upon certain claims and fixes specific infirmities of the '623 patent and is, therefore, of strategic importance to our ongoing enforcement and licensing activity," said Marc Frechette, Chief Licensing Officer of Netlist. "The '595 is a timely addition to Netlist's RDIMM patent family following the issuance of US Patent No. 9,858,218 in 2018."
The technologies covered by the '218 and '595 patents were created by Netlist engineers in the course of developing the Company's breakthrough memory module architectures. The industry adopted many of Netlist's patented inventions years later as it struggled to address technical challenges created by the high-speed interfaces of DDR4 RDIMM and LRDIMM products.
About Netlist
Netlist provides high-performance SSDs and modular memory subsystems to enterprise customers in diverse industries. HybriDIMM™, Netlist's next-generation storage class memory product, addresses the growing need for real-time analytics in Big Data applications, in-memory databases, high-performance computing and advanced data storage solutions. Netlist also manufactures and provides a line of specialty and legacy memory products to storage customers, appliance customers, system builders and cloud and datacenter customers. Netlist holds a portfolio of patents, many seminal, in the areas of hybrid memory, storage class memory, rank multiplication and load reduction. To learn more, visit www.netlist.com.
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