US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 2 for "Apparatuses and methods for refresh management entry timing" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,377, issued on June 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for refresh management entry timing" was invented by Yoshio Mizukane (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory devices receive refresh management (RFM) commands and perform a targeted refresh operation responsive to the RFM command. Certain conflicts may occur if the RFM command is received while the memory is performing certain operations. An RFM entry circuit receives the RFM command at a first time and then provides an internal RFM signal at a second time. The second time may be the next time a row activation or ref...