US Patent Issued to SK hynix on July 7 for "Memory including memory cells having different sizes" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,419, issued on July 7, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory including memory cells having different sizes" was invented by Dong Hun Kwak (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Moon Soo Sung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Woo Pyo Jeong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory may include a first memory block including a plurality of first memory cells; and a second memory block including a plurality of second memory cells each having a larger size than each of the plurality of first memory cells. Normal data may be stored in the first memory block, and critical data requiring reliability may b...