ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,011, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory controller and memory system including the same" was invented by Kyung Jin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sung-Joon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ho-Young Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyung-Hee Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system, a memory controller are provided. The memory system includes: a memory device; and a memory controller configured to: control a patrol scrubbing operation in which data is read from and re-written to the memory device, based on a scrubbing cycle; and adaptively adjust ...