ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,592, issued on April 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Performing sense operations in memory" was invented by Michele Maria Venturini (Milan), Umberto Di Vincenzo (Capriate San Gervasio, Italy), Ferdinando Bedeschi (Biassono, Italy), Riccardo Muzzetto (Arcore, Italy), Christophe Vincent Antoine Laurent (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and Christian Caillat (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems for performing sense operations in memory are disclosed. The memory can have a group of memory cells, and circuitry can be configured to perform a sense operation on the group, wherein pe...