US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 26 for "Bit counting circuits and memory devices including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,220, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Bit counting circuits and memory devices including the same" was invented by Makoto Hirano (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jongmin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nonvolatile memory device includes a control logic configured to generate a clock signal and a page buffer selection signal including information about a ratio of a number of page buffers on which a fail bit counting operation is performed to a total number of the plurality of page buffers, a fail bit counting circuit configured to select one or more page buf...