US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 9 for "Memory device that performs erase operation to preserve data reliability" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,630, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device that performs erase operation to preserve data reliability" was invented by Jinyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sehwan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ilhan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngdeok Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dongmin Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device may include a memory block and a control circuit. The memory block may include a first sub-block and a second sub-block that are connected between a common source line and a plurality of bit lines and may be vertically ...