ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,001, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device and operating method thereof" was invented by Seong-Jin Cho (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device, including a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cell rows; a monitoring cell array configured to detect a victim memory cell row of the plurality of memory cell rows, and to generate bit data; a bit data decoder configured to: receive the bit data, and based on the bit data, generate a victim memory address including address information about the victim memory cell row; and a ref...