US Patent Issued to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION on Sept. 9 for "Counter-based selective row hammer refresh apparatus and method for row hammer prevention" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,615, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Counter-based selective row hammer refresh apparatus and method for row hammer prevention" was invented by Jung Ho Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Micheal Jae Min Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Nam Hoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Hyun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are counter-based selective row hammer refresh apparatus and method for row hammer prevention and, more particularly, proposed are an apparatus and a method for reducing energy consumption of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) by imp...