US Patent Issued on Aug. 25 for "Apparatuses and methods for controlling steal rates" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,862, issued on Aug. 25.

"Apparatuses and methods for controlling steal rates" was invented by Timothy B. Cowles (Boise, Idaho), Jiyun Li (Boise, Idaho), Beau D. Barry (Boise, Idaho), Matthew D. Jenkinson (Boise, Idaho), Nathaniel J. Meier (Boise, Idaho), Michael A. Shore (Boise, Idaho), Adam J. Grenzebach (Boise, Idaho) and Dennis G. Montierth (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a refresh control circuit with multiple timing circuits. The timing circuits may be used to control steal rates, e.g., the rate of refresh time slots dedicated to healing victim word lines of row hammers. The timing circui...