ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,363, issued on March 11, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for controlling refresh period of extended memory pool" was invented by Seon-Young Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for controlling a refresh period of an extension memory pool. The method includes collecting information about each of preset unit DRAM cell sets of an extension memory pool, setting an initial refresh period for each of the DRAM cell sets, and adjusting the refresh period based on the information collected from the DRAM cell se...