US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Nov. 18 for "Apparatuses and methods for configurable ECC modes" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,965, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for configurable ECC modes" was invented by Scott E. Smith (Boise, Idaho) and Sujeet Ayyapureddi (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for an enhanced ECC mode. The memory array includes a number of data column planes and an extra column plane. When the memory device is set in an Enhanced ECC mode, data is stored in a subset of the data column planes, and an error correction code circuit (ECC) stores corresponding parity data in one of a column plane other than one of the subset of data colu...