ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,309, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Hubei, China).

"Memory system and an operating method thereof" was invented by Shuai Zhang (Wuhan, China), Yaoyao Tian (Wuhan, China), Ya Wang (Wuhan, China), Wei Qi (Wuhan, China), Da Li (Wuhan, China) and Wenping Chen (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system comprises: a memory device including a first word line; and a memory controller coupled to the memory device and configured to: acquire the number of read failure bits of a memory cell page coupled to the first word line; determine whether the number of read failure bits of the mem...