ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,355, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Non-volatile memory device, controller and memory system" was invented by Kuiyon Mun (Busan, South Korea), Beomkyu Shin (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jaeyong Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile memory device is provided. The non-volatile memory device includes a clock pin, a clock signal being received from a controller through the clock pin; a first input/output pin; a second input/output pin, data being received from the controller in synchronization with the clock signal through the second input/...