ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,653, issued on July 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Drift compensation for codewords in memory" was invented by Marco Sforzin (Cernusco Sul Naviglio, Italy), Paolo Amato (Treviglio, Italy), Luca Barletta (Gallarate, Italy), Marco Pietro Ferrari (Milan) and Antonino Favano (Brolo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for drift compensation for codewords in memory. An embodiment includes a memory device having an array of memory cells, and circuitry to sense a codeword stored in the array, determine a derivative value of a cell metric for each c...