ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,047, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Nonvolatile memory device and operation method thereof" was invented by Su Chang Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Woohyun Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungkyung Ro (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangkwon Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Heewon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a nonvolatile memory device which include a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells connected to a plurality of word lines, an address decoder that controls a selected word line among the plurality of word lines based on a...