US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 3 for "Memory control apparatus and method to refresh dram banks based on attribute information" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,803, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Memory control apparatus and method to refresh dram banks based on attribute information" was invented by Naoki Hirata (Kanagawa, Japan) 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 memory control apparatus comprising: a first generation unit configured to generate an access command in response to an access request for the DRAM, and store the generated access command in a buffer; a second generation unit configured to generate a bank-designated refresh request for the ...