ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,944, issued on June 30, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"System and method for operating a memory device" was invented by Wenwen Dong (Wuhan, China), Yahai Liu (Wuhan, China), Wei Huang (Wuhan, China), Weijun Wan (Wuhan, China), Jianjie Li (Wuhan, China) and Feihao Cen (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for performing a read operation in a memory. In one example, a method for operating a memory device includes performing sensing operations on memory cells of the memory device based on at least one voltage or at least one develop time....