ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,041, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Storage device and method for foggy and fine programming" was invented by Seung Gu Ji (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jun Rye Rho (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may include a memory device including a memory block coupled to physical word lines each including pages, and a memory controller configured to control the memory device such that, in response to a power off event occurring during a program operation on a selected page, fine program operations are performed on to-be completed pages, which precede the ...