ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,029, issued on June 23, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device related to performing a program operation on memory cells" was invented by Hyeok Jun Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea), Hee Sik Park (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Seung Geun Jeong (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a memory device for performing a program operation on memory cells. The memory device include a plurality of memory cells configured to store data, a voltage generator configured to apply program voltages to a word line coupled to the plurality of memory cells during a program operation in which ...