ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,465, issued on June 3, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).
"Digital verify failbit count (VFC) circuit" was invented by Teng Chen (Wuhan, China) and Masao Kuriyama (Wuhan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A failbit counting method includes sequentially receiving, at an input of a counter, a bit group including one or more verification bits. Each of the one or more verification bits is a fail bit or a pass bit. The counter includes one or more counter stages coupled in series from the input. The method further includes, for one verification bit of the one or more verification bits, performing a dete...