US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Oct. 21 for "Semiconductor memory device performing program operation and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,199, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device performing program operation and method of operating the same" was invented by Kwang Min Lim (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Hee Youl Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device, and a method of operating the same, includes a memory cell array, a peripheral circuit, and control logic. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory blocks coupled to a common source line. The peripheral circuit performs a program operation on a memory block selected from among the memory blocks. Th...