US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Dec. 30 for "Memory device performing target refresh operation and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,181, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory device performing target refresh operation and operating method thereof" was invented by Jung Taek You (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes: a memory cell region including normal cells coupled to normal column selection lines, and row-hammer cells and redundancy cells respectively coupled to redundancy column selection lines; a repair control circuit configured to provide repair addresses and row-hammer flag signals, corresponding to repair information, according to a row address; and a column control...