US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Dec. 30 for "Method of determining and preprogramming over-erases groups of memory cells" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,170, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method of determining and preprogramming over-erases groups of memory cells" was invented by Yohan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaeduk Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangsoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yonghyuk Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a nonvolatile memory device, includes: determining, based on a write address, whether selected memory cells of the nonvolatile memory device corresponding to the write address are included in an over-erased group; based on the selected memory cells b...