US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 12 for "Access tracking in memory" (North Carolina, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,559, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Access tracking in memory" was invented by Cagdas Dirik (Indianola, Wash.), Robert M. Walker (Raleigh, N.C.) and Elliott C. Cooper-Balis (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access tracker configured to receive a request to access a page, determine whether a page identification (ID) associated with the page is in the access tracker, increment an access count of the page in response to determining the page ID is in the access tracker, sort a number of page IDs based on an access count of each page ID, and determine whether a different page i...