ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,173, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and method of operating the same" was invented by Taeyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yohan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to semiconductor memory devices and methods of operating a semiconductor memory device. One example method includes setting a sensing node of a page buffer to a first voltage, detecting a deviation in operating characteristics of a first sense amplifier and a second sense amplifier with respect to the first voltage, and sequential...