ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,987, issued on April 15, was assigned to SK Hynix Inc. (Icheon, South Korea) and Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Error handling device, semiconductor memory device including the same, and error handling method including cross sensing operation" was invented by Giseok Kim (Gimpo, South Korea), Jiyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Wonjoon Jo (Seoul, South Korea), Sungho Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seongook Jung (Seoul, South Korea), Juhyun Park (Icheon, South Korea), Seung Ho Lee (Icheon, South Korea) and Jungchan Lee (Icheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An error handling devi...