ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,005, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Nonvolatile memory devices that support enhanced power saving during standby modes" was invented by Artur Antonyan (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Eun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array having nonvolatile memory cells therein, which are electrically connected to a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines. A write driver and row decoder are provided, which are electrically connected to the plurality of bit lines and the plurality of word lines, respectively. Contro...