ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,906, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory device for preventing a row hammering phenomenon" was invented by Jun Seok Noh (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sang Woo Yoon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and No Geun Joo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a memory device including a count circuit suitable for: generating a plurality of group selection signals corresponding to a plurality of address groups by counting, in units of the address groups, a number of times that each of a plurality of address signals is inputted to the memory device, wherein each of the add...