ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,114, issued on May 20, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device for effectively performing read operation, and operation method thereof" was invented by Beom Ju Shin (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Tae Hee You (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device may include: a plurality of planes, each suitable for inputting/outputting data in units of pages, a latch suitable for performing a read operation on one or more planes of the plurality of planes in response to one or more read commands, receiving data from any one plane, among the plurality of planes, and storing the received dat...