US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 12 for "Memory device with improved program performance and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,791, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device with improved program performance and method of operating the same" was invented by Sung-Min Joe (Seoul, South Korea) and Kang-Bin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory cell region including a first metal pad, a peripheral circuit region including a second metal pad and vertically connected to the memory cell region by the first and second metal pads, a memory cell array in the memory cell region including cell strings including memory cells, word lines respectively connect...