ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,929, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory controller, memory system including the same, and operating method thereof" was invented by Choung Ki Song (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller includes a scheduler configured to generate an active command an active address, and determine whether to issue the active command the active address according to an output control signal; a row-hammer detector configured to generate the output control signal by checking a row-hammer possibility based on the active command the active address; and a memory interface...