ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,314, issued on April 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Bank mapping for memory" was invented by Robert M. Walker (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mapping addresses to banks can include receiving a plurality of row bits, a plurality of column bits, and a plurality of bank bits and generating a rank bit from a bank bit from the plurality of bank bits. Updated bank bits can be generated by removing the bank bit from the plurality of bank bits. The plurality of row bits, the plurality of column bits, the rank bit, and the updated bank bits can be provided to the controller to access a plurality of ...