US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 5 for "Apparatuses and methods for monitored refresh management operations" (Washington, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,430, issued on May 5, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for monitored refresh management operations" was invented by Randall J. Rooney (Boise, Idaho) and Jeremy Chritz (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller performs an access operation on a word line which is in a portion of a memory array in a memory device. The controller counts accesses on a portion-by-portion basis (e.g., a bank-by-bank basis, a sub-bank-by-sub-bank basis, etc.). The memory counts accesses on a word line-by-word line basis. The memory sets a refresh management (RFM) flag for a portion based on the counts a...