US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 13 for "Reserved rows for row-copy operations for semiconductor memory devices and associated methods and systems" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,279, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Reserved rows for row-copy operations for semiconductor memory devices and associated methods and systems" was invented by Randall J. Rooney (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for memory devices (e.g., DRAM) including one or more reserved rows for row-copy operations are described. Such a memory device may include a memory array having a set of rows, where one or more rows of the set are reserved for row-copy operations and hidden (un-addressable) from access commands directed to the memory array. The reserved r...