ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,942, issued on June 30, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Methods to re-use stuck cells in data storage, and associated memory systems" was invented by Raffaele Costa (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Andrea Castelnuovo (Hamburg, Germany), Matthieu Deloge (Waalre, Netherlands), Maurits Mario Nicolaas Storms (Best, Netherlands) and Sergio Masferrer Oncala (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of storing data in a stuck-cell memory page of a memory array, the stuck-cell memory page having a cell at a stuck-cell-identifier cell of the memory page stuck at a stuck-cell-value, the method co...