ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,986, issued on July 15, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Semiconductor device and operating method with page buffer including latches" was invented by Hyung Jin Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), In Gon Yang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Young Seung Yoo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device may include a page buffer comprising first to fifth latches, wherein the first to third latches and the fifth latch are configured to store 4-bit original data, among 5-bit original data, respectively, and the fourth latch is configured to store data identical with the data that ha...