ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,270, issued on March 31, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Bank-shared usage-based disturbance circuitry" was invented by Yunyoung Lee (Meridian, Idaho), Yuan He (Boise, Idaho), Yang Lu (Boise, Idaho) and Kang-Yong Kim (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for implementing bank-shared usage-based disturbance circuitry are described. Bank-shared usage-based disturbance circuitry is coupled to the at least two banks of a memory device and can mitigate usage-based disturbance within these banks. To detect a condition associated with usage-based disturbance, the bank-shared usage-base...