ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,603, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device and operating method thereof" was invented by Jae Young Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Han Bin Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device may include: a plurality of memory cells; a data manager for receiving data from the plurality of memory cells, and generating sub-data groups having a predetermined size, based on the received data; and a data compressor for detecting first-value bits having a first logic value among the bits in the received data, determining a number of target bits corresponding to eac...