US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 27 for "Memory device compressing soft decision data and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,950, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device compressing soft decision data and operating method thereof" was invented by Suyong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ilhan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a first memory cell array and a second memory cell array, a first page buffer and a second page buffer configured to read data from the first memory cell array and the second memory cell array, respectively; and a first compression circuit configured to compress first soft decision data into first compressed data by encoding...