ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,539, issued on Nov. 11.

"Apparatus with refresh management mechanism" was invented by Nathaniel J. Meier (Boise, Idaho), James S. Rehmeyer (Boise, Idaho) and David R. Brown (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to managing operations performed in response to refresh management (RFM) commands. A controller generates the RFM command for coordinating a refresh management operation targeted for implementation at an apparatus. The apparatus tracks refresh target set that includes refresh management target locations within the apparatus. According to the tracked refresh management target set...