ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,289, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method of operating memory device and memory device performing the same" was invented by Chihyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junehong Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jayang Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Chiweon Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyeongdo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of operating a memory device, a first operation is performed on a memory block by applying first driving voltages to a plurality of wordlines. After the first operation is completed, a first recovery operation in which...