ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,116, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Operating method of memory controller, and memory device" was invented by Hoon Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaewook Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Donghwee Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Rihae Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device and an operating method of a memory controller are described in which the operating method includes determining that a NOT operation for data of a cell is to be performed by the memory device; forming, in a bit line...