ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,303, issued on April 22, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device performing refresh operation" was invented by Dae Joon Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a count signal generation circuit configured to increase one of the values of a weak cell count signal and an active count signal by comparing a weak cell address with an adjacent address generated from a row address, when an active operation is performed. The electronic device also includes a target refresh control circuit configured to latch the adjacent address based on the values of the weak...