US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 11 for "Memory device and method of operating wordlines" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,164, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory device and method of operating wordlines" was invented by Jongho An (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Daehan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a leakage detector connected to each of a plurality of word lines and configured to obtain a program voltage and perform a leakage detection operation, and a control circuit configured to control a row decoder, a voltage generator, and the leakage detector, and to perform a leakage detection operation on the plurality of word lines. The control cir...