ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,502, issued on July 1, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Page buffer, memory device including page buffer and memory system including memory device" was invented by Kang Woo Park (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device including a page buffer is part of a memory system. The memory device includes first memory cells, each configured to be programmed to have a threshold voltage corresponding to any one of a plurality of program states. The memory device also includes data latches configured to respectively store a plurality of pieces of first logical page data to be stored in the fir...