ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,521, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Performing serialized update procedures during a refresh period" was invented by Yang Lu (Boise, Idaho), Donald Morgan (Meridian, Idaho) and QiaoHua Dong (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and techniques for performing serialized update procedures during a refresh period are described. In example aspects, a memory device performs a normal refresh operation, which refreshes multiple rows simultaneously. The refreshed rows are associated with different refresh sections and different column segments. While refreshing the rows and prior to ...