ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,496, issued on July 1, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).
"Electronic device and method of operating the same" was invented by In Seob Noh (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Jong Kyung Park (Icheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes memory cells connected to a selected word line; a peripheral circuit configured to perform a first program operation of programming a threshold voltage of each of memory cells to a pre-threshold voltage less than a target threshold voltage, and perform a second program operation of programming the threshold voltage of each of the memory cells to the targe...