ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,444, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FIDELIX Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Pumping voltage generating circuit in which the total pumping force is controlled in response to the self-refresh charge consumption" was invented by Jae Jin Lee (Gwangju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pumping voltage generating circuit can include a control information generating block receiving a pumping enable signal and a refresh sequential signal and generating driving force control information, the driving force control information controlled so that a number of pulses of the refresh sequential signal falling within a target pu...