US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus and method for performing target refresh operation" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,102, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for performing target refresh operation" was invented by Woongrae Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device, comprising: first storage logic configured to store, as the first addresses, 'K' addresses having different values among input addresses applied during the enable period of a reference signal, second storage logic configured to store, as second addresses, 'L' addresses corresponding to a time point at which the enable period of the reference signal is ended among the input add...