ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,282, issued on March 31, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Memory device performing program operation and method of operating the same" was invented by Hyung Jin Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), In Gon Yang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Young Seung Yoo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a semiconductor device. According to the present technology, a memory device having a reduced size may include a plurality of memory cells connected to a selected word line, a plurality of page buffers configured to store at least one second logical page data except for...