US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Aug. 12 for "Refresh circuit and semiconductor memory device including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,777, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Refresh circuit and semiconductor memory device including the same" was invented by Jung Hwan Ji (Icheon-si, South Korea), Min Soo Park (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Geun Il Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refresh circuit is configured to generate a counting signal by counting a refresh command to generate a plurality of preliminary refresh cycle change signals by decoding the counting signal. The refresh circuit is also configured to change a refresh cycle based on one of the plurality of preliminary refresh cycle change sign...