ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,825, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device and operation method thereof" was invented by Dongha Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Tae-Kyeong Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Do-Han Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to operation methods of a memory device including multiple rows each including multiple memory cells. One example method includes receiving an active command for a first row from a memory controller, reading a first count from a per-row hammer tracking (PRHT) region of the first row, updating the first count to g...