ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,947, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device for performing foggy-fine program operation and method of operating the memory device" was invented by Jae Yeop Jung (Icheon-si, South Korea), Dong Hun Kwak (Icheon-si, South Korea), Yeong Jo Mun (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Hyun Seob Shin (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a memory device for performing a foggy-fine program operation and a method of operating the memory device. The memory device includes a memory block including a plurality of memory cells, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a...