US Patent Issued to Rambus on Nov. 11 for "Memory device having hidden refresh" (North Carolina, California, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,441, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory device having hidden refresh" was invented by Michael Raymond Miller (Raleigh, N.C.), Steven C. Woo (Saratoga, Calif.) and Thomas Vogelsang (Jericho, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) memory device includes an array of storage cells configured into multiple banks. Interface circuitry receives refresh commands from a host memory controller to refresh the multiple banks for a first refresh mode. On-die refresh control circuitry selectively generates local refresh commands to refresh the multiple banks in cooperation with the host...