ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,359, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi bank refresh in volatile memory systems" was invented by Saurabh Sethi (Mohali, India), Vasantha Kumar Bandur Puttappa (Bangalore, India), Amulya Srinivasan Margasahayam (Bangalore, India), Madhukar Reddy N (Hyderabad, India) and Abhay Raj (Lucknow, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include methods for implementing a multi-bank memory refresh command on memory devices. A memory controller may select a number of memory banks to refresh in a refresh cycle, select a first memory bank to refresh, and send the memory device a multi-bank of mem...