ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,225, issued on June 16, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device including compressing and merge circuits and operating method of the memory device" was invented by Chan Keun Kwon (Icheon-si, South Korea), Hyeon Cheon Seol (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Sung Hwa Ok (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes: a plurality of memory planes each including a plurality of memory banks, the plurality of memory planes being grouped into memory planes; a plurality of compressing circuits respectively connected to the plurality of memory banks, the plurality of compressing circui...