ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,224, issued on June 16, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory devices and methods of performing row access counting operations" was invented by Min Cheol Park (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a bank configured to store a row counting value corresponding to the number of times each word line is accessed when an active operation is performed, and a column control circuit configured to perform a counting read operation and a counting write operation during a period in which a column selection operation set by a pre-charge command is performed."

The patent was file...