US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 25 for "Semiconductor memory device and operating method of the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,884, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and operating method of the same" was invented by Tae Young Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dae Won Ha (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, first and second memory cell groups, a first word line connected to the first and second memory cell groups, and a control logic configured to cause the semiconductor memory device to apply a positive (+) erase voltage to the substrate, apply a positive (+) first program voltage to the first word line such t...