ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,507, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Techniques for data refresh based on environmental conditions" was invented by Christopher Joseph Bueb (Folsom, Calif.), Ting Luo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Luca Porzio (Casalnuovo, Italy), Gianluca Coppola (Liveri, Italy) and Ryan Laity (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for data refresh based on environmental conditions are described. A memory system may program data to a set of blocks, where an order in which the data be programmed to respective blocks of the set of blocks may be based on a first block...