ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,300, issued on May 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Bank-level self-refresh" was invented by John Christopher Sancon (Boise, Idaho), Yang Lu (Boise, Idaho), Kang-Yong Kim (Boise, Idaho), Mark Kalei Hadrick (Boise, Idaho) and Hyun Yoo Lee (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described apparatuses and methods relate to a bank-level self-refresh for a memory system. A memory device can include logic that implements self-refresh operations in the memory device. The logic may perform self-refresh operations on a set of banks of the memory device that is less than all banks within the memory device. The s...