ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,583, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory controller that transmits hammer addresses with different command protocols and memory system including the same" was invented by Sungyong Cho (Anyang-si, South Korea) and Hyeran Kim (Uiwang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller to control a semiconductor memory device, includes a row hammer management circuit and a scheduler. The row hammer management circuit counts each of access addresses associated with accesses to a plurality of memory cell rows of the semiconductor memory device to store counting...