US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 27 for "Semiconductor memory devices and memory systems including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,960, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory devices and memory systems including the same" was invented by Jongcheol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kiheung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taeyoung Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyungho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a row hammer management circuit and a refresh control circuit. The row hammer management circuit automatically stores random count data in count cells of each of a plurality of memory cell rows during a power-up sequence...