ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,701, issued on Aug. 12.

"Memory chips and operating methods thereof" was invented by Bin Wu (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a memory chip and an operating method thereof, which determines an operating state of a storage space corresponding to a write instruction, the operating state including an error correction protection state and a multiple programmed state and being represented by, for example, flag bits and error correction bits, and enables, in a later reading process, an error correction mechanism for the storage space in the error correction protection state, or disables the error corre...