US Patent Issued to Rambus on Dec. 16 for "Dynamic, random-access memory with hidden memory scrubbing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,966, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic, random-access memory with hidden memory scrubbing" was invented by Thomas Vogelsang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Torsten Partsch (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory includes a local control circuitry that manages scrub transactions using a set of sense amplifiers separate from those used for access (read and write) transactions. The local control circuitry interrupts scrub transactions to prioritize access requests, thereby offering improved memory performance. The local control circuitry also divides scrub transactions into phases ...