ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,850, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Configurable data protection circuitry for memory devices" was invented by Marco Sforzin (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy) and Paolo Amato (Treviglio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, and methods related to configurable data protection circuitry. A memory includes a plurality of memory devices and a memory controller that can be coupled to the memory via a plurality of channels. The channels comprise respective subsets of the plurality of memory devices. The memory controller comprises data protection circuitry to accommodate a first ...