US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 20 for "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for storing and accessing memory metadata and error correction code data" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,261, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for storing and accessing memory metadata and error correction code data" was invented by Sujeet Ayyapureddi (Boise, Idaho) and Scott E. Smith (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bank of a memory device is divided into column planes. Each column plane is associated with column selects. A portion of a column plane associated with one column select used to store metadata associated with data of the remaining column selects. Both the metadata and the data are provided to an error correction code circuit as a combi...