US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on June 3 for "Directed refresh management for DRAM" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,434, issued on June 3, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Directed refresh management for DRAM" was invented by Kevin M. Brandl (Austin, Texas), James R. Magro (Lakeway, Texas), Kedarnath Balakrishnan (Bangalore, India) and Jing Wang (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller for generating accesses for a memory includes a row hammer logic circuit for providing a sample request. In response to the sample request, the memory controller generates a sample command for dispatch to the memory to cause the memory to capture a current row. In response to a completion of the sample comma...