ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,700, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device and method of operating the same" was invented by Jae Woong Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an electronic device. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a memory device may include a plurality of memory cells connected to each word line, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a program operation on memory cells that are connected to a selected word line, and a control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to perform the program operation on the memo...