ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,340, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Adjusting memory power consumption" was invented by Ori Laslo (Rehovot, Israel) and Gilad Kirshenboim (Petach Tiqva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system may monitor a bit error rate in data read from a memory in the memory system. The memory system may determine that the monitored bit error rate satisfies an acceptable memory error condition. The memory system may adjust operation of the memory system to decrease the power consumption of the memory system, wherein the adjusted operation results in a new bit error rate monito...