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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. 16, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2008
Applicant:
Sung-kyu JO, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventor:
Sung-Kyu Jo, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Semiconductor memory devices are provided that include a nonvolatile memory that has a plurality of memory cells and a memory controller that is configured to control at least some of the operations of the nonvolatile memory. The memory controller include an error correction unit. Moreover, the memory controller is configured to determine whether a read failure that occurs during a read operation of a first of the plurality of memory cells is due to charge leakage based at least in part on an output of the error correction unit. Related methods are also disclosed.