US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Aug. 11 for "Semiconductor memory device for performing blind program operation and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,148, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory device for performing blind program operation and method of operating the same" was invented by Hyun Seob Shin (Icheon-si, South Korea), Dong Hun Kwak (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Yeong Jo Mun (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein may be a semiconductor memory device and a method of operating the same. By the method, at least one normal program loop is performed on a first memory cell, among a plurality of memory cells included in a page selected as a program target, having an N-th program state, amon...