US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 19 for "Maximum row active time enforcement for memory devices" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,345, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Maximum row active time enforcement for memory devices" was invented by Donald M. Morgan (Meridian, Idaho) and Bryan David Kerstetter (Kuna, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing maximum row active time enforcement for memory devices is disclosed. A host device issues an activate command to activate a memory bank of a plurality of memory banks of a memory. The memory device activates the memory bank and determines whether a precharge command to close the first memory bank has been issued by the host device within a maximum threshold ...