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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2017
Applicants:

Heewon Lee, Suwon-si, KR;

Sari Go, Hwaseong-si, KR;

Seungkyung RO, Anyang-si, KR;

Seongnam Kwon, Bucheon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Heewon Lee, Suwon-si, KR;

Sari Go, Hwaseong-si, KR;

Seungkyung Ro, Anyang-si, KR;

Seongnam Kwon, Bucheon-si, KR;

Assignee:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/3418 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/3422 (2013.01); G11C 16/3427 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller. The nonvolatile memory device includes multiple memory blocks, each of which includes memory cells. The controller reads data from selected memory cells of a memory block selected from the memory blocks during a read operation. The selected memory cells correspond to both a word line and a string selection line selected as a read target. The controller increases a read count by a read weight corresponding to the selected word line and string selection line of the selected memory block, and performs a refresh operation on the selected memory cells if the read count reaches a threshold value. In the selected memory block, two or more read weights are assigned according to locations of the string selection lines and the word lines.


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