ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,898, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method of operating nonvolatile memory device, nonvolatile memory device and memory controller performing the same" was invented by Junyeong Seok (Seoul, South Korea), Younggul Song (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Eunchu Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Byungchul Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Joonsung Lim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of operating one or more nonvolatile memory devices including one or more memory blocks, each memory block includes a plurality of memory cells and a plurality of pages arra...