ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,608, issued on April 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Row mapping in a memory controller" was invented by Antonino Capri (Bergamo, Italy) and John Namkung (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A row can be mapped to a spare row in memory. The mapping can include stopping the scheduler from issuing commands to the first bank. Responsive to stopping the scheduler from issuing commands to the first bank, the logic can map a particular row of the first bank to the spare row. The mapping can include allowing the scheduler to schedule commands for the second bank concurrently with the mapping of the pa...