ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,280, issued on July 8.

"Erroneous bit discovery in memory system" was invented by Joseph Thomas Pawlowski (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for erroneous bit discovery in a memory system are described. A controller or memory controller, for example, may read a code word from a memory medium. The code word may include a set of bits that each correspond to a respective Minimum Substitution Region (MSR) of the memory medium. Each MSR may include a portion of memory cells of the memory medium and be associated with a counter to count a quantity of erroneous bits in each MSR. When the controller ide...