ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,412, issued on April 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Performing selective copyback in memory devices" was invented by Vamsi Rayaprolu (San Jose, Calif.), Ashutosh Malshe (Fremont, Calif.), Gary Besinga (Boise, Idaho) and Roy Leonard (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed including a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device can perform operations comprising determining a data validity metric value with respect to a set of memory cells of the memory device; responsive to determining that the data validity ...