US Patent Issued to IUCF-HYU (Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University) on Nov. 18 for "Method for operating three-dimensional flash memory" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,951, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for operating three-dimensional flash memory" was invented by Yun Heub Song (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaemin Sim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for operating a program of a three-dimensional flash memory. A program voltage has a value obtained by adding a step voltage to a previous program voltage applied in a previous program operation, and the step voltage is increased as a program operation is repeated. Also, the program operation is performed on a ta...