US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 7 for "Bank-based refresh for a memory device" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,480, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bank-based refresh for a memory device" was invented by Darshan Kumar Nandanwar (Bangalore, India), Ankit Gosalia (Milpitas, Calif.) and Swayamsampanna Padhi (Jajpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a memory controller configured to receive, from a three-dimensional (3D) memory device, first temperature information associated with a first bank of the 3D memory device and to receive, from the 3D memory device, second temperature information associated with a second bank of the 3D memory device. The first bank and the second bank are associat...