ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,167, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Voltage adjustment based on pending refresh operations" was invented by Timothy M. Hollis (Meridian, Idaho), James S. Rehmeyer (Boise, Idaho), Baekkyu Choi (San Jose, Calif.), Yogesh Sharma (Boise, Idaho), Eric J. Stave (Meridian, Idaho), Brian W. Huber (Allen, Texas) and Miles S. Wiscombe (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for voltage adjustment based on, for example, pending refresh operations are described. A memory device may periodically perform refresh operations to refresh volatile memory cells and may at times...