ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,038, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Generation of soft decision data for memory devices" was invented by Sehwan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jisang Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyojung Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory cell array, a control logic which controls a read operation to read hard decision data and soft decision data from each page, and a page buffer which includes a first latch related to sensing of the hard decision data and a second latch related to sensing of t...