ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,172, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory device supporting parallel compression read operation and memory system including the same" was invented by Chan Keun Kwon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hyeon Cheon Seol (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system comprising a first memory device configured to compress, into first compression data, data read from a first memory region included therein, and output the first compression data through first selection lines among first output lines in response to a first clock, a second memory device configured to compre...