ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,604, issued on June 10, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method of operating the same capable of preventing malfunction during read operation" was invented by Byung Goo Cho (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a chip selection signal receiver configured to receive, from an external memory controller, a chip selection signal activating to a state in which communication is possible with the external memory controller. The semiconductor device also includes a data signal receiver configured to receive a command an address from the external...