ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,295, issued on March 31, was assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and On Behalf of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Systems and methods for improving radiation tolerance of three- dimensional flash memory" was invented by Biswajit Ray (Madison, Ala.) and Aleksandar Milenkovic (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for improving radiation tolerance of memory senses an amount of radiation exposure and, based on the sensed amount of radiation exposure, determines whether to perform one or more techniques for mitigating the effects of the radiation exposure. As an ex...