ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,522, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to WINBOND ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor memory device and method for controlling the same for row-hammer refresh operations without reducing the performance of normal refresh operations" was invented by Shinya Okuno (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a semiconductor memory device and method for controlling the same, to carry out row-hammer refresh operations without degrading the performance of the normal refresh operation. The semiconductor device includes a control section 10 configured to simultaneously refresh each memory cell connected ...