US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 17 for "Column redundancy circuit and memory device including same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,590, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd..

"Column redundancy circuit and memory device including same" was invented by Kiryong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Inhak Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaesung Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example column redundancy circuit of a memory device comprises a pre-decoder circuit, a main decoder circuit, and a shift logic circuit. The pre-decoder circuit is configured to receive a lower column address from a plurality of fault column addresses and perform a first decoding operation, and to receive an upper column address from the plurali...