ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,513, issued on March 31, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory controller performing refresh operation and memory system including the same" was invented by You Min Ji (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system is provided to include a memory device including a first memory block and a second memory block, and a memory controller configured, in response to a read request from a host, to control the memory device to read data stored in a first page corresponding to a first logical address included in the read request, update a read count of the first memory block including the fir...