US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 7 for "Apparatuses and methods for partial array self refresh masking" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,175, issued on July 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for partial array self refresh masking" was invented by Yukimi Morimoto (Sagamihara, Japan), Yoshio Mizukane (Sagamihara, Japan) and Hidekazu Noguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for partial array self refresh masking. A memory bank may be divided into a number of segments, each of which is associated with partial-array self-refresh (PASR) logic which provides a mask signal. The mask signal may be deactivated responsive to an access operation performed on the associated segment. While the ma...