ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,105, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Partial array sparing in a memory" was invented by Timothy Bronson (Round Rock, Texas), Gregory William Alexander (Pflugerville, Texas), Hieu Trong Huynh (Austin, Texas), Ashraf ElSharif (Austin, Texas) and Saul Bernaber (Milford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate and integrated circuitry on the semiconductor substrate. The integrated circuitry includes a memory array including a plurality of memory macros including at least first and second memory macros. Each of the plurality o...