ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,896, issued on June 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device and a method of operating the same device" was invented by Yujung Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sung-Rae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hye-Ran Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device and a method of operating the memory device are provided. The memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells to store data, an error correction code (ECC) circuit, and an error check and scrub (ECS) circuit. The ECC circuit reads the data from the memory cell array and corrects er...