ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,648, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Memory apparatus, refresh control circuit and row hammer refresh method" was invented by Chongoh Eun (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory apparatus, comprising: a command decoder, generating an external refresh command; a refresh skip divider, coupled to the command decoder, catching the external refresh command outputting a divider signal; a row hammer circuit, generating a row hammer signal; and a refresh control circuit, coupled to the command decoder, the refresh skip divider and the row hammer circuit, wherein the refr...