ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,051, issued on June 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Data protection and recovery" was invented by Marco Sforzin (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy), Paolo Amato (Treviglio, Italy) and Joseph M. McCrate (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A redundant array of independent disks (RAID) protection can be provided along with other types of error correction code (ECC) schemes that correct either errors in data prior to the data being input to the RAID process or residual errors from the RAID process. The ECC schemes can utilize parity bits generated using a parity matrix whose bit patterns have an amount of ...