US Patent Issued to Rambus on May 12 for "Memory device with staggered access" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,799, issued on May 12, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory device with staggered access" was invented by Torsten Partsch (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device supports low power operation by facilitating staggered access to row segments within a row of a memory bank. Upon receiving an activate command to activate a row, the memory device sequentially activates a plurality of local wordlines associated with the row with a stagger interval between activations. Upon receiving an access command associated with the activated row, the memory device sequentially initiates column operations for resp...