ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,933, issued on July 28, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Memory devices, and operation method thereof, memory systems" was invented by JiaLiang Deng (Wuhan, China) and ZhuQin Duan (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure disclose a memory device and an operation method thereof, a memory system and an operation method thereof, and a storage medium. A memory cell of the memory device is programmed to a first memory state after a first program operation is performed, and data in the first memory state is programmed to a second memory state after a second program...