ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,411, issued on April 8, was assigned to YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Memory and its erase verification method, operation method, and a memory system" was invented by Chong Jing (Wuhan, China) and Hong Cao (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of erase verification of a memory includes performing a first erase verification operation on a memory block of the memory after performing an erase operation on the memory block. The method also includes determining a first verification result of the first erase verification operation. The method further includes determining whether to perform a second e...