ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,093, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device for performing a program operation and a method of operating the semiconductor device" was invented by Hyung Jin Choi (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a semiconductor device and a method of operating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a memory block, a peripheral circuit, and control logic. The memory block includes a plurality of memory cells. The peripheral circuit is configured to perform a program operation on a memory cell selected from among the plurality of me...