US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 20 for "Semiconductor memory devices that support enhanced data recovery operations" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,082, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory devices that support enhanced data recovery operations" was invented by Seungjun Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seong Geon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dae-Won Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyungduk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youn-Soo Cheon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a memory device includes reading a first page of memory cells containing at least one worn-out memory cell therein using a read voltage, from a first memory block, and reading a second page of memory cells, which exten...