ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,431, issued on May 5, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Refresh management selection" was invented by Steven C. Woo (Saratoga, Calif.) and Taeksang Song (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Refresh management commands are issued to a memory device in order to cause the refresh of rows in the vicinity of one or more rows being "hammered." These refresh management commands are each associated with respective row addresses that indicates the row(s) to be refreshed in order to mitigate the likelihood of data being corrupted by "row hammer." In an embodiment, the refresh management commands are issued in response ...