ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,445, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and memory system including the same" was invented by Taeyoung Oh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a row hammer management circuit and a refresh control circuit. The row hammer management circuit counts the number of times of access on each memory cell row to store the counted values in count cells of each memory cell row as count data. A hammer address queue in the row hammer management circuit stores candidate hammer addresses, which are intensively accesse...