US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Jan. 13 for "Semiconductor memory device and method for programming select transistors" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,173, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and method for programming select transistors" was invented by Jae Woong Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device, and a method of operation, includes a memory block including a plurality of memory strings. The semiconductor memory device also includes a peripheral circuit performing a main program operation on drain select transistors included in the memory block, and a test program operation and a threshold voltage monitoring operation on memory cells included in the memory blo...