ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,848, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Methods and apparatuses for operating a memory device" was invented by Hailong Wang (Wuhan, China), Xueqing Huang (Wuhan, China), Junyao Zhu (Wuhan, China), Tianyu Wang (Wuhan, China) and Wei Wang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems for managing memory devices are provided. In one aspect, a method for operating a memory device includes programming a memory block of the memory device by programming each of a set of memory strings included in the memory block, and verifying the memory block by verifying les...