ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,542, issued on March 24, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Locked raid with compression for memory interconnect applications having a shared cache line" 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 (LRAID) 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 com...