US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 17 for "Data protection with time-varying in-situ data refresh" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,027, issued on March 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Data protection with time-varying in-situ data refresh" was invented by Dung Viet Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), James Fitzpatrick (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Huai-Yuan Tseng (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations including storing a set of user data and multiple portions of error correction data. The operations can also include, responsive to an expiration of a first threshold amount of time after storing the set of use...