ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,196, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and operating method for performing program operation" was invented by Eun Hye Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a peripheral circuit, and control logic. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells. The peripheral circuit performs a program operation on selected memory cells among the plurality of memory cells. The control logic controls the program operation of the peripheral circuit. The control logic controls the periphera...