ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,263, issued on June 3, was assigned to Internaional Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Sensor based memory array data scrubbing" was invented by Dimitri Houssameddine (White Plains, N.Y.), Heng Wu (Guilderland, N.Y.) and Krishna Thangaraj (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for dynamically altering a frequency at which data scrubbing is performed on a memory device is disclosed. The computer-implemented method includes monitoring at least one of a temperature and a magnetic field of the memory device. The computer-implemented metho...