US Patent Issued to YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 16 for "System and method of performing a read operation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,036, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to YANGTZE MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"System and method of performing a read operation" was invented by ZhuQin Duan (Wuhan, China), ZhiChao Du (Wuhan, China), Yu Wang (Wuhan, China), Daesik Song (Wuhan, China) and Xiaojiang Guo (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory array having memory cells, a page buffer coupled to the memory array through bit lines and including a latch, and a control logic coupled to the page buffer. The control logic is configured to perform a first read operation on the memory cells, and perform a second read opera...