ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,590, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Memory device configured to reduce verification time and operating method thereof including dump operations" was invented by Hyunjun Yoon (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 memory cells therein that are programed to a plurality of program states, and a page buffer circuit having a plurality of page buffers therein that are connected to a plurality of bit lines associated with the memory cell array. Each of the page buffers includes a sensing latch that is connected to a correspondi...