ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,072, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc..

"Managing race conditions for DRAM self-refresh" was invented by Sri Ananda Sai Jannabhatla (Hyderabad, India), T S S Sai Prasad Bezawada (Tenali, India), Subham Panda (Balasore, India), Dinesh Nagjibhai Sudani (Amreli, India), Radhakrishna Mugada (Hyderabad, India) and Trang Nguyen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of entry into self-refresh mode by a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) may be managed using one or more polled registers. Indications of DRAM write activity by the DRAM or a DRAM client may be stored in the registers. The registers may be polled af...