US Patent Issued to SK keyfoundry on March 4 for "Non-volatile memory octo mode program and erase operation method with reduced test time" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,609, issued on March 4, was assigned to SK keyfoundry Inc. (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

"Non-volatile memory octo mode program and erase operation method with reduced test time" was invented by Weon-Hwa Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Young Chul Seo (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), Chul Geun Lim (Gunsan-si, South Korea), Yong Hwan Kim (Cheongju-si, 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: "An octo mode program and erase operation method to reduce test time in a non-volatile memory device. M/8 word lines corresponding to an octo row, among M word lines, are...