US Patent Issued to SK hynix on June 24 for "Memory device for performing read protection operation of limiting read operation and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,836, issued on June 24, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device for performing read protection operation of limiting read operation and method of operating the same" was invented by Byung Goo Cho (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein may be a memory device and a method of operating the same. The memory device may include a memory cell array including a plurality of memory blocks, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a read operation of reading data stored in selected memory cells in a target block among the plurality of memory blocks, and a read protection controll...