ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,870, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Bit error management in memory devices" was invented by Jeremy Binfet (Boise, Idaho), Tommaso Vali (Sezze, Italy), Walter Di Francesco (Avezzano, Italy), Luigi Pilolli (L'Aquila, Italy), Angelo Covello (Avezzano, Italy), Andrea D'Alessandro (Avezzano, Italy), Agostino Macerola (San Benedetto dei Marsi, Italy), Cristina Lattaro (Rieti, Italy) and Claudia Ciaschi (Latina, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a memory device may receive a command to read data in a first format from non-volatile memory, the data being stored in a seco...