ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,429, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Cross-comparison of data copy pairs during memory device initialization" was invented by Angelo Covello (Avezzano AQ, Italy), Claudia Ciaschi (Latina LT, Italy), Michele Incarnati (Avezzano, Italy) and Tommaso Vali (Sezze LT, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a local memory to store operational data and comparison logic operatively coupled with the local memory. The comparison logic, upon initialization of the memory device, compares, to detect any errors in the operational data, one copy of a first copy pair with one copy of a...