ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,198, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Foregoing a usage-based-disturbance mitigation opportunity in favor of error handling" was invented by Yang Lu (Boise, Idaho), Donald Morgan (Meridian, Idaho), Mark Kalei Hadrick (Boise, Idaho), Victor Wong (Boise, Idaho) and Kang-Yong Kim (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and techniques for efficient handling of data errors and usage-based disturbances are described. To enable efficient utilization of time-limited resources, a memory device includes control circuitry that performs multiple different types of operations responsive t...