ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,176, issued on July 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device performing ECS operation, operation method of the memory device, memory system, electronic device, and electronic system" was invented by Junha Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngbin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kangil Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Saemi Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kiseok Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Doohee Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device is provided. The memory device includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cell rows; a refresh control circui...