US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Aug. 26 for "Memory device for performing smart refresh operation and method of reducing power consumption during refresh" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,701, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device for performing smart refresh operation and method of reducing power consumption during refresh" was invented by Jeong Jin Hwang (Icheon-si, South Korea), Sung Nyou Yu (Icheon-si, South Korea), Duck Hwa Hong (Icheon-si, South Korea), Sang Ah Hyun (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Soo Hwan Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a target address generation circuit configured to generate a counting signal by counting the number of times each logic level combination of an address is input by performin...