ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,916, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Encoders, decoders, and semiconductor memory devices including the same" was invented by Byongmo Moon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes an encoding unit configured to receive 2n-bit read data and to generate 2m-bit read data, and an output driver configured to input m-bit first read data of the 2m-bit read data, to transmit voltage and/or current a first number of times corresponding to a number of first bits indicating a first state included in the m-bit first read data or to transmit current corresponding to the...