ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,269, issued on April 21, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Method for memory storage and access" was invented by Thomas Kern (Aschheim, Germany), Thomas Rabenalt (Unterhaching, Germany) and Michael Goessel (Mahlow, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for storing data bits in memory cells, in which the data bits have at least one byte-filling bit, where at least one predefined functionality for a subset of the data bits is coded in the at least one byte-filling bit, and in which the data bits are stored in the memory cells. A method for reading data bits from memory cells, in which the data b...