ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,305, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Memory device and enhance programming method thereof" was invented by Lung-Chi Cheng (Taichung, Taiwan), Shan-Hsuan Tsai (Taichung, Taiwan), Ying-Shan Kuo (Taichung, Taiwan), Ngatik Cheung (San Jose, Calif.) and Ju-Chieh Cheng (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device and an enhance programming method thereof are provided. The enhance programming method includes: performing program and verifying operations on a plurality of memory cell groups of a memory division, where each of the memory cell group corresponds to at least on...