ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,798, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Nonvolatile memory device providing input/output compatibility and method for setting compatibility thereof" was invented by Hojun Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungjin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Doobock Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seunghoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Baek Jin Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngdon Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Junghwan Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonvolatile memory device may include a variable sampler configured to process a data signal in an amplifier mode or a sampler mod...