ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,062, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device, storage module, host and operating methods for performing a refresh operation based on temperature information" was invented by Doo Hwan Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seung-Hun Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jin Hun Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chang Ho Yun (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyung-Hee Han (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an operating method of a storage device. The method includes providing temperature information of each of a plurality of volatile memory devices in the storage d...