US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, Korea University Research & Business Foundation on Jan. 28 for "Semiconductor device and memory system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,572, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea) and Korea University Research & Business Foundation (South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and memory system" was invented by Kyoungho Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Chulwoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunsu Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Jincheol Sim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a multilevel receiver including a signal determiner receiving a plurality of multilevel signals and outputting a result of mutual comparison of the plurality of multilevel signals as an N-bit signal, where N is a natural numbe...