US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 25 for "Semiconductor device for improving retention performance and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,022, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device for improving retention performance and operating method thereof" was invented by Sanggyu Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yeongmin Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a memory device and a controller configured to perform an erase operation on the memory device, perform a correction operation for a threshold voltage of a deep-erased cell, and perform an erase verify operation by identifying whether threshold voltages of a plurality of cells of the memory device fall w...