US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Feb. 3 for "Apparatuses and methods for distributing and providing data protection for auxiliary data" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,428, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for distributing and providing data protection for auxiliary data" was invented by Marco Sforzin (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy) and Daniele Balluchi (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some rows of memory cells can be configured to store auxiliary data, which provides data protection for user data stored in the other rows of memory cells. The data protection provided by the auxiliary data can include, but not limited to, error correction and/or detection schemes. To further enhance the protection of data stor...