US Patent Issued to SK hynix, INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY on July 14 for "Method of operating a three-dimensional semiconductor memory device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,968, issued on July 14, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea) and INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of operating a three-dimensional semiconductor memory device" was invented by In Ku Kang (Icheon-si, South Korea), Kyung Hoon Min (Icheon-si, South Korea), Sung In Hong (Icheon-si, South Korea), Yun Heub Song (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Min Sim (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Ho Song (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of programming a three-dimensional semiconductor memory device includes applying a first word line programming voltage to a sel...