US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 2 for "Apparatuses and methods for single-pass access of ECC information, metadata information or combinations thereof" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,853, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for single-pass access of ECC information, metadata information or combinations thereof" was invented by Scott E. Smith (Boise, Idaho) and Sujeet Ayyapureddi (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for single-pass access of ECC information, metadata information, or combinations thereof. The memory array includes a number of column planes and an extra column plane. A memory device may be set in an x4 single-pass operational mode. In this mode, the memory may store data in a selected ones of the c...