US Patent Issued to Micron echnology on July 8 for "Apparatuses and methods for dynamic column select swapping" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,694, issued on July 8, was assigned to Micron echnology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for dynamic column select swapping" was invented by Yoshinori Fujiwara (Boise, Idaho), Kristopher Kopel (Boise, Idaho) and Kosei Kudo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses and methods for dynamic column select swapping. A memory may have a number of sets of bit lines organized into column planes. If a set of bit lines associated with a first address in a first column plane is defective, it may be repaired by reassigning the first address to a redundant set of bit lines i...