ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,645, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device, memory system, and operating method of compression using position values" was invented by Jaehun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sumin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiwon Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Mankeun Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hongrak Son (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dongmin Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes first and second memory cell arrays each including a plurality of memory cells, a page buffer circuit configured to read first soft decision data including a plurality...