ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,783, issued on April 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Data inversion techniques" was invented by Stefan Dietrich (Turkenfeld, Germany), Thomas Hein (Munich), Natalija Jovanovic (Munich), Ronny Schneider (Hohenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Germany), Michael Dieter Richter (Ottobrunn, Germany) and Martin Brox (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data inversion techniques are described to enable a memory device to transmit or receive a multi-symbol signal that includes more than two (2) physical levels. Some portions of some multi-symbol signals may be inverted. A transmitting dev...