ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,976, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Storage device, non-volatile memory, and method of operating program of non-volatile memory including counting a number of on-cells during verification" was invented by Hyunjun Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a non-volatile memory device, a storage device including the same, and a method of performing a programming operation on the same. The method includes performing a program operation including applying a desired first program voltage to a selected word li...