ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,574, issued on May 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Auto-calibrated corrective read" was invented by Chengbin Sun (Meridian, Idaho), Carmine Miccoli (Boise, Idaho), Violante Moschiano (Avezzano, Italy), Srinath Venkatesan (Boise, Idaho) and Walter Di Francesco (Avezzano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory array and control logic, operatively coupled to the memory array, to perform operations including causing a read operation to be initiated with respect to a set of target cells, determining whether the read operation has failed, in response to determining that the read o...