US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 3 for "Method of performing copyback operation in nonvolatile memory device, and nonvolatile memory device and storage device performing the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,302, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Method of performing copyback operation in nonvolatile memory device, and nonvolatile memory device and storage device performing the same" was invented by Myungkyu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Beomkyu Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungho Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In performing a copyback operation, a copyback command for target data that are programmed in a source area based on first voltage levels is received. A hard data read operation and a soft data read operation are performed on the target data based on the co...