US Patent Issued on Sept. 30 for "Methods for error count reporting with scaled error count information, and memory devices employing the same" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,205, issued on Sept. 30.

"Methods for error count reporting with scaled error count information, and memory devices employing the same" was invented by Matthew A. Prather (Boise, Idaho) and Randall J. Rooney (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising a memory array including a plurality of memory cells arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows is provided. The apparatus further comprises circuitry configured to perform an error detection operation on the memory array to determine a raw count of detected errors, to compare the raw count of detected errors to a threshold value to determine an...