ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,135, issued on June 17, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory device and memory system for performing target refresh operation, and operation method thereof" was invented by Chul Moon Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Byeong Yong Go (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Woongrae Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes: a rate control circuit configured to: generate a refresh counting value based on a refresh management command an internal target refresh command, and generate a rate control signal by comparing the refresh counting value with a target value corresponding...