ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,126, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device for performing read operation" was invented by Jae Yeop Jung (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Dong Hun Kwak (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes: a plurality of memory cell strings including a plurality of memory cells connected to a plurality of word lines; a peripheral circuit for performing a read operation that reads data stored selected memory cells connected to a selected word line among the plurality of word lines; and a read operation controller for controlling the peripheral circuit to perform...