ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,548, issued on May 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Bank selection for refreshing" was invented by Yang Lu (Boise, Idaho) and Kang-Yong Kim (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, refreshing a bank can include receiving a refresh command, wherein the refresh command comprises selector bits and receiving mode register bits from the mode registers. Refreshing a bank can also include refreshing a number of banks from the plurality of banks utilizing the mode register bits and the selector bits."
The patent was filed on July 22, 2022, under Application No. 17/871,752.
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