US Patent Issued to Rambus on Aug. 26 for "Multi-modal refresh of dynamic, random-access memory" (California, North Carolina, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,636, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-modal refresh of dynamic, random-access memory" was invented by Thomas Vogelsang (Jericho, Vt.), Steven C. Woo (Saratoga, Calif.) and Michael Raymond Miller (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system includes two or more memory controllers capable of accessing the same dynamic, random-access memory (DRAM), one controller having access to the DRAM or a subset of the DRAM at a time. Different subsets of the DRAM are supported with different refresh-control circuitry, including respective refresh-address counters. Whichever controller has a...