ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,339, issued on April 15, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor storage apparatus and semiconductor system for emulating erasing operation of flash memory" was invented by Kensaku Sugai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor storage apparatus having a function of emulating an erasing operation of a flash memory is provided. A resistive random access memory of the disclosure includes: a memory cell array; a controller that reads or writes the memory cell array according to an input of command; an erasing command allowance register that sets whether or not to receive an eras...