ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,993, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Memory bank protection" was invented by Paolo Amato (Treviglio, Italy), Marco Sforzin (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy) and Daniele Balluchi (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to memory bank protection are described. A quantity of errors within a single memory bank is determined and the determined quantity can be used to further determine whether to access other memory banks to correct the determined quantity. The memory bank protection described herein avoids a single memory bank of a memory ...