ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,703, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Bosie, Idaho).

"Data scrambling for repeat operations" was invented by Martin Brox (Munich) and Thomas Hein (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data scrambling for repeat operations are described. A first device may communicate a data set to a second device as a first set of bits. The first device may use a first scrambling code to scramble the first set of bits and the second device may use a first descrambling code to descramble the first set of bits. Upon determining that the first set of bits was received by the second device with...