ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,081, issued on March 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory apparatus for providing reliability, availability, and serviceability" was invented by Paolo Amato (Treviglio, Italy), Marco Sforzin (Cernusco Sul Naviglio, Italy) and Stephen S. Pawlowski (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A channel width can depend on a quantity of memory units (e.g., memory dice) that forms a channel as well as a size of the memory units. A memory system can operate with memory units configured to exchange (e.g., transfer to and/or from) data at a rate of smaller granularity that can provide more various options f...