ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,480, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Memory system with multiple open rows per bank" was invented by Thomas Vogelsang (Mountain View, Calif.), John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Liji Gopalakrishnan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) component (e.g., module or integrated circuit) can be configured to have multiple rows in the same bank open concurrently. The controller of the component divides the address space of the banks into segments based on row address ranges. These row address ranges do not necessarily correspond to row address ranges...