US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 17 for "Memory system and nonvolatile memory device capable of compressing data from a memory plane and outputting data in parallel" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,593, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory system and nonvolatile memory device capable of compressing data from a memory plane and outputting data in parallel" was invented by Hwasuk Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungwoo Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byungkwan Chun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example nonvolatile memory device includes page buffer circuits, compression engines, local clock controllers, a data input/output (I/O) circuit, and a control circuit. Each compression engine is connected with a respective page buffer circuit through res...