ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,270, issued on April 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods to perform data swapping on a host" was invented by Sujeet Ayyapureddi (Boise, Idaho), Wesley W. Borie (Boise, Idaho), Dennis G. Montierth (Meridian, Idaho), Garth N. Grubb (Boise, Idaho), Mow Yiak Goh (Boise, Idaho) and Anthony M. Geidl (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary host includes a data mapping decoder configured to decode a swizzle mapping signal received from a memory module to provide a data mapping setting, a data input/output circuit configured to receive a plurality of data bits from the memory ...