ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,983, issued on May 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Providing multiple error correction code protection levels in memory" was invented by Marco Sforzin (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy), Christophe Vincent Antoine Laurent (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and Riccardo Muzzetto (Arcore, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to providing multiple error correction code protection levels in memory. One device includes an array of memory cells and an operating circuit for managing operation of the array. The operating circuit comprises an encoding unit configured to generate a codeword for a firs...