ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,915, issued on March 25, was assigned to SK keyfoundry Inc. (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

"Non-volatile memory device with parallel programming" was invented by Seong Jun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jong Min Cho (Yangpyeong-gun, South Korea), Sung Bum Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Kee Sik Ahn (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile memory device includes a first fuse cell array and a second fuse cell array, spaced from each other; a first ground ring region and a second ground ring region disposed to surround the first fuse cell array and the second fuse cell array, respectively; a third ground ...