US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Dec. 2 for "Apparatus and method for programming and verifying data in non-volatile memory device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,845, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for programming and verifying data in non-volatile memory device" was invented by Hyung Jin Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device comprises: a memory cell array including multiple cells have program states divided on a basis of N threshold voltage levels, and a controller configured to: divide, into N groups corresponding to the N threshold voltage levels, cells selected as a verification target, and perform, if a selected group of the N groups corresponds to remaining threshold voltage levels ...