US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 11 for "Non-volatile memory device optimized for a surface mount technology (SMT) process and an operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,684, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Non-volatile memory device optimized for a surface mount technology (SMT) process and an operating method thereof" was invented by Joohee Son (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hune Seo (Goyang-si, South Korea), Dongcheul Chang (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Wandong Kim (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method of a non-volatile memory device, the method including: receiving a program command from an external device; determining an operating mode in response to the program command; when the operating mode is a s...