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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2003
Applicant:
Ken Sumitani, Tenri, JP;
Inventor:
Ken Sumitani, Tenri, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Abeno-ku, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C013/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A semiconductor memory device is provided, which comprises a memory array comprising a plurality of memory cells, a page buffer section for temporarily storing data to be written into the memory array, and a masking section for masking at least a portion of data read from the page buffer section.