US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 3 for "Semiconductor memory device and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,453, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device and method of operating the same" was invented by Sangyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Younghun Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyuchang Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Incheol Nam (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaejoon Song (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a semiconductor memory device includes: providing NBTI information including row addresses of NBTI vulnerable cells among the plurality of memory cells such that a decrease in a threshold voltage of the cell transistor due to...