ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,682, issued on April 22, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Redundant computing across planes" was invented by Sean S. Eilert (Penryn, Calif.), Kenneth M. Curewitz (Cameron Park, Calif.), Helena Caminal (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Ameen D. Akel (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for redundant computing across planes are described. A device may perform a computational operation on first data that is stored in a first plane that includes content-addressable memory cells. The first data may be representative of a set of contiguous bits of a vector. The device may perform, conc...