US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 23 for "Usage-based disturbance counter repair" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,047, issued on June 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Usage-based disturbance counter repair" was invented by Yang Lu (Boise, Idaho), Yuan He (Boise, Idaho), Kang-Yong Kim (Boise, Idaho) and Dong Pan (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and techniques for implementing usage-based disturbance (UBD) counter repair are described. In example implementations, a memory device includes multiple memory rows, multiple corresponding UBD counters, a register, and a spare UBD counter. If a UBD counter is faulty, logic can substitute the spare UBD counter. To do so, the logic can store a row address c...