ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,209, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Controller architecture for reliability, availability, serviceability access" was invented by Emanuele Confalonieri (Segrate, Italy), Antonino Capri (Bergamo, Italy), Nicola Del Gatto (Cassina de' Pecchi, Italy), Federica Cresci (Milan) and Massimiliano Turconi (Gorgonzola, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can include a plurality of memory devices and a memory controller coupled to the plurality of memory devices via a plurality of memory channels. The plurality of memory channels can be each organized as a plurality of channel groups t...