US Patent Issued to Kioxia on June 23 for "Semiconductor memory device performing multi-bit programming using sequential write operations with reduced latch count" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,026, issued on June 23, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device performing multi-bit programming using sequential write operations with reduced latch count" was invented by Kazutaka Ikegami (Inagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes bit lines, memory cells that are respectively connected to the bit lines, sense amplifier units that are respectively connected to the bit lines, and each of which includes m latch circuits, and a logic control circuit configured to input data to the m latch circuits and control a write operation on each of the memory cells using the data...