US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 28 for "Memory controller, control method for memory controller, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,541, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Memory controller, control method for memory controller, and storage medium" was invented by Daisuke Shiraishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a memory controller, at least one of a plurality of refresh methods varying in refresh target area of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is a refresh method of refreshing an entire area of the DRAM, and a specific event that disables access to the entire area of the DRAM occurs in a cycle longer than a refresh execution cycle using the refresh method of refreshing the entire area of the DRAM. The memory controller include...