ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,935, issued on June 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for separate write enable for single-pass access of data, metadata, and parity information" 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: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for separate write enable signals for data, metadata, and parity information. A memory array is divided into column planes and an extra column plane. In modes of the memory device, data and parity information is stored in the column planes and metadata is stored in the extra column plane. The ext...