ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,468, issued on June 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Conditional write back scheme for memory" was invented by Richard C. Murphy (Boise, Idaho), Glen E. Hush (Boise, Idaho) and Honglin Sun (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods can be related to implementing a conditional write back scheme for memory. The data may be stored by memory cells of a memory array. The data may be moved to sense circuitry. The data can be conditionally held by the sense circuitry while a plurality of operations is performed. The results of the plurality of operations can dictate whether to commit the da...