US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 17 for "Memory device including flexible column repair circuit" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,173, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Memory device including flexible column repair circuit" was invented by Hyungjin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seunghyun Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells therein that span a plurality of rows, which are grouped into segments, and a plurality of columns, which are grouped into ticks. The ticks include normal ticks, and a spare tick that spans at least one redundancy column of memory cells in the memory cell array. A repair circuit is provided, wh...