ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,290, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Non-volatile memory including judgment memory cell strings and operating method thereof" was invented by Yu-Cheng Chen (Taichung, Taiwan) and Chieh-Yen Wang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile memory and an operating method thereof are provided. The non-volatile memory includes a memory array and a controller. Each main memory cell string, a first judgment memory cell string, and a second judgment memory cell string of the memory array respectively includes a plurality of main memory cells, a plurality of first judgmen...