US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 12 for "Semiconductor memory device and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,522, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and operating method thereof" was invented by Seungki Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woongdai Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngjae Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a semiconductor memory device includes setting an operating mode of a mode register to a first operating mode to allow a refresh operation to be performed at intervals of a first period, counting an active command a pre-charge command by control logic in the first operating mode to generate counting i...