US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 26 for "Apparatuses and methods to deprioritize traffic to unavailable memory banks" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,702, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods to deprioritize traffic to unavailable memory banks" was invented by Sujeet Ayyapureddi (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary memory controller includes a refresh manager circuit configured to provide a refresh command to a memory system via a command address bus to initiate a refresh operation at a bank of the memory system. In response to provision of the refresh command, the refresh manager circuit is further configured to issue a bank status command to the host to indicate that the bank of the memory system ...