US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Oct. 28 for "Semiconductor device for programming or erasing select transistors and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,530, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device for programming or erasing select transistors and method of operating the same" was invented by Hyung Jin Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a semiconductor memory device, a program voltage is applied to select lines, which are coupled to corresponding select transistors included in a plurality of string groups. A verify operation on the select transistors is then performed, which simultaneously checks the operation of first select transistors included in a first string group and second select transistors ...