US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 30 for "Apparatuses and methods for enhanced metadata support" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,176, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for enhanced metadata support" was invented by Scott E. Smith (Boise, Idaho) and Sujeet Ayyapureddi (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for enhanced metadata information. The memory array includes a number of column planes and an extra column plane. A memory device is set in an x4 single-pass operational mode. In this mode, the memory may store a data codeword in a selected ones of the column planes, and metadata may be stored in a non-selected ones of the column planes and in the extra co...