US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 29 for "Semiconductor memory device and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,578, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and method of operating the same" was invented by Sunghye Cho (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kijun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Myungkyu Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Eunae Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Byeonggyu Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Yeonggeol Song (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cell rows, a row hammer management circuit, and a refresh control circuit. The row hammer management circuit captures ro...