ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,101, issued on May 6, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Data relocation operation techniques" was invented by Paolo Papa (Naples, Italy), Luigi Esposito (Naples, Italy), Massimo Iaculo (Caserta, Italy), Giuseppe D'Eliseo (Caserta, Italy), Alberto Sassara (Naples, Italy), Carminantonio Manganelli (San Giorgio del Sannio, Italy) and Salvatore Del Prete (Naples, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data relocation operation techniques are described. A memory system may include blocks of memory cells, for example, within a non-volatile memory device of the memory system. The memory ...