US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 13 for "Methods and systems for reducing ECC power consumption" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,311, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Methods and systems for reducing ECC power consumption" was invented by Christophe Laurent (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operating an array of memory cells can include storing user data in memory cells of the memory array, storing parity data associated with the user data in a number of parity cells of the memory array, the parity data corresponding to selectable Error Correction Code (ECC) correction capabilities from a minimum ECC correction capability to a maximum ECC correction capability, calculating an ECC syndrome from the s...