ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,690, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Managing program operations in memory devices" was invented by Tingze Wang (Wuhan, China), Ying Huang (Wuhan, China), Hongtao Liu (Wuhan, China), Pengyu Xu (Wuhan, China) and Xiangnan Zhao (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 memory device includes a memory array including a memory block, and a peripheral circuit coupled to the memory array. The memory block includes a set of strings. The peripheral circuit is configured to program the memory blo...