US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 8 for "ECC configuration in memories" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,717, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"ECC configuration in memories" was invented by Graziano Mirichigni (Vimercate, Italy), Christophe 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 a method for operating an array of memory cells, the method comprising storing user data in a plurality of memory cells of the array, storing parity data associated with the user data in a plurality of parity cells of the array, and, based on the stored parity data, selecting an Error Correction Code (ECC) correction capability...