ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,789, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Data stripe protection" was invented by Marco Sforzin (Cernusco Sul Naviglio, Italy), Paolo Amato (Treviglio, Italy) and Daniele Balluchi (Cernusco Sul Naviglio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to data stripe protection are described. An error management component can process multiple read/write/recovery requests concurrently. When read/write requests are to be processed on respective strips of a stripe, the error management component can process (e.g., concurrently) the read/write requests to determine a qua...