ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,041, issued on Jan. 27.

"Memory with programmable refresh order and stagger time" was invented by Vaughn N. Johnson (Boise, Idaho), Debra M. Bell (Boise, Idaho), Miles S. Wiscombe (Boise, Idaho), Brian T. Pecha (Boise, Idaho) and Kyle Alexander (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory devices and systems with programmable refresh order and stagger times are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory device includes a first memory bank group and a second memory bank group. The memory device is configured, in response to a refresh command, to perform a first refresh operation on the first memory bank group at a first time...