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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:
Apr. 11, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 01, 2021
Applicant:

SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Sung Hyun Hwang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Ju Eun Lim, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Assignee:

SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01); G11C 16/24 (2006.01); G11C 16/08 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/3459 (2013.01); G11C 16/0433 (2013.01); G11C 16/08 (2013.01); G11C 16/102 (2013.01); G11C 16/24 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01); G11C 16/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present technology relates to a semiconductor memory device and a method of operating the same. The semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory blocks, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a program operation on a selected memory block among the plurality of memory blocks, and control logic configured to control the peripheral circuits to perform a retention acceleration operation including boosting a channel of a plurality of cell strings included in the selected memory block between a program voltage applying operation and a program verify operation during the program operation.


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