US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 22 for "Magnetoresistive random access memory with data scrubbing" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,298, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Magnetoresistive random access memory with data scrubbing" was invented by Heng Wu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Krishna Thangaraj (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Eric Raymond Evarts (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for a system that includes a data scrubbing circuit, a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) having a memory array, and an analog persistent vital information circuit (APVIC) that performs a method. The method includes resetting weights corresponding to blocks of the memory array. The method fur...