US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 10 for "Memory device and operating method with mechanism to determine victim rows for refreshing" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,582, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device and operating method with mechanism to determine victim rows for refreshing" was invented by Hijung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seong-Jin Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of rows, an ECC engine configured to determine a health level for each of the plurality of rows based on the number of corrections of errors of data read from each of the plurality of rows, a control logic configured to determine a victim row address based on the h...