US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 29 for "Apparatuses and methods for access based targeted refresh operations" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,523, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for access based targeted refresh operations" was invented by Yuan He (Boise, Idaho) and Takamasa Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for access based targeted refresh operations. A memory bank has a first sub-bank and a second sub-bank. A refresh control circuit detects an aggressor in one of the sub-banks. Responsive to an access in the other sub-bank, the refresh control circuit performs a targeted refresh operation based on the sub-bank based on the aggressor address."

The patent wa...