ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,567, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Partial array refresh timing" was invented by Liji Gopalakrishnan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Thomas Vogelsang (Mountain View, Calif.) and John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller combines information about which memory component segments are not being refreshed with the information about which rows are going to be refreshed next, to determine, for the current refresh command, the total number of rows that are going to be refreshed. Based on this total number of rows, the memory controller selects how long to wait after the...