ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,096, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Nonvolatile memory device and operating method based on program execution and/or erase execution time" was invented by Seunghan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device is provided. The storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device configured to receive a command an address for a write operation or an erase operation via command-address pins, transmit and receive write data or read data via data pins, and generate degeneration information by measuring at least one of a program execution time to perf...