US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 16 for "Memory devices and methods for managing use history" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,963, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory devices and methods for managing use history" was invented by Changhwi Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junyoung Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jungmin Bak (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device may include a time counter which is configured to output a count signal according to a predetermined time interval, a use history circuit which is configured to write an operating time value based on the count signal and generate and write a validation value corresponding to the operating time value, and a command ...