US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 23 for "Apparatuses and methods for alternate memory die metadata storage" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,050, issued on June 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for alternate memory die metadata storage" was invented by Sujeet Ayyapureddi (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for alternate memory die metadata storage. A memory module includes a number of memory devices. A controller writes data and metadata to the module. The data is stored in the memory devices, while the metadata is stored in a selected portion of the memory devices. The selected portion of the memory devices may use separate write enable signals to protect bit lines which the met...