ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,087, issued on May 6, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for programming data in a non-volatile memory device" was invented by Hyung Jin Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes plural memory cells and control circuitry. Each of the memory cells is capable of storing multi-bit data corresponding to an erase state and plural program states. The control circuitry is configured to divide plural program loops, which are performed to store the multi-bit data in the plural memory cells, into plural program groups and apply different program pulses, w...