ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,978, issued on April 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Selective and dynamic deployment of error correction code techniques in integrated circuit memory devices" was invented by James Fitzpatrick (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Phong Sy Nguyen (Livermore, Calif.), Dung Viet Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.) and Sivagnanam Parthasarathy (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system configured to dynamically adjust the amount of redundant information stored in memory cells of a wordline on an integrated circuit die based on a bit error rate. For example, in response to a determination that a bit error rate ...