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Tony Michael Argenbright

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3402
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2731
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2589
Pending Applications
40
Abandoned Applications
102

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Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/121147
Memory system capable of preventing read fail, including reading a second memory block through a dummy read operation, when an erase operation is performed to a first memory block, and operating method thereof Sep 3, 2018 Issued
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16/114177
Memory interface and memory system including plurality of delay adjustment circuits shared by memory read and write circuits for adjusting the timing of read and write data signals Aug 26, 2018 Issued
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16/109185
Testing memory cells by allocating an access value to a memory access and granting an access credit Aug 21, 2018 Issued
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16/106185
Operation of a memory device during programming Aug 20, 2018 Issued
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16/057871
Memory device and programming method of multi-level cell (MLC) Aug 7, 2018 Issued
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16/056321
Semiconductor device including TCAM cell arrays capable of skipping TCAM-cell search in response to control signal Aug 5, 2018 Issued
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16/054633
Memory system for adjusting clock frequency Aug 2, 2018 Issued
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16/053129
Semiconductor package with clock sharing and electronic system including the same Aug 1, 2018 Issued
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16/052043
Memory controller, information processing system, and nonvolatile-memory defect determination method Jul 31, 2018 Issued
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16/050913
Memory device having plurality of memory cell strings, plurality of source select transistors and plurality of drain select transistors and method of operating a memory device having improved threshold voltage distributions of select transistors Jul 30, 2018 Issued
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16/050383
Power transistor coupled to multiple sense transistors Jul 30, 2018 Issued
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16/047811
Semiconductor memory device with a three-dimensional stacked memory cell structure Jul 26, 2018 Issued
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16/044887
Memory circuitry having a pair of immediately-adjacent memory arrays having space laterally-there-between that has a conductive interconnect in the space Jul 24, 2018 Issued
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16/043497
Extended write modes for non-volatile static random access memory architectures having word level switches Jul 23, 2018 Issued
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16/022959
Program progress monitoring in a memory array Jun 28, 2018 Issued
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16/017539
Semiconductor device and electronic device Jun 24, 2018 Issued
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16/013514
Multi-port memory and semiconductor device Jun 19, 2018 Issued
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15/984834
Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device with a plurality of memory blocks and a shared block decoder May 20, 2018 Issued
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15/968219
Semiconductor device including clock generation circuit for write write leveling operation and write operation Apr 30, 2018 Issued
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15/958833
Bipolar switching operation of confined phase change memory for a multi-level cell memory Apr 19, 2018 Issued
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