ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,579, issued on March 24, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Locked raid with compression for memory interconnect applications" was invented by Emanuele Confalonieri (Segrate, Italy) and Marco Sforzin (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a device that includes an interface operatively coupled to a locked redundant array of independent disks including M (Mless than1) memory dice, the M memory dice stores stripes of data, and each stripe spanning over the M memory dice; and control circuitry that performs data compression on data to generate compressed data; stores the compressed...