ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,176, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).
"Memory device and method of operating the same" was invented by Hee Youl Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device, and a method of operating the same, includes checking a first elapsed time between an end time of a program operation performed on a first page and a selection time when a second page is selected after the end time, comparing the first elapsed time with a reference time interval, and performing a dummy program operation on the second page when the first elapsed time is equal to or longer than the reference tim...