ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,406, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Memory control apparatus and memory control method" was invented by Makoto Fujiwara (Tokyo) and Daisuke Shiraishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory control apparatus that controls access to a DRAM including a plurality of banks, the apparatus comprising: a first generation unit that generates an access command in response to an access request to the DRAM and stores the access command in a buffer; a second generation unit that generates a refresh request specifying a bank to the DRAM; and an issuance unit that issues a DRAM command to the DRAM, based on the acce...