US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 27 for "Semiconductor memory device for performing remaining bank refresh operation and refresh method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,549, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device for performing remaining bank refresh operation and refresh method thereof" was invented by Jongpil Son (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device that includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory banks, a command decoder configured to decode a per-bank refresh command a remaining bank refresh command received from an external source, and a refresh controller configured to control the cell array to perform a per-bank refresh operation for refres...