US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Nov. 3 for "Semiconductor device and method of operating the semiconductor device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,849, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device and method of operating the semiconductor device" was invented by Chang Hyun Han (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Moon Soo Sung (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a bit line control circuit and a row decoder. The bit line control circuit applies a verification precharge voltage after a program pulse period to a program-inhibited bit line maintaining a program-inhibited voltage during the program pulse period. The row decoder forms a channel in a string coupled between the program-inhibited bit l...