ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,892, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SUNRISE MEMORY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for reducing disturb errors by refreshing data alongside programming or erase operations" was invented by Raul Adrian Cernea (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for ensuring data integrity in memory pages includes: dividing the memory pages into a predetermined number of refresh groups; and for each write operation to be performed on a selected memory page: (a) selecting one of the refresh groups; (b) reading data from the memory pages of the selected refresh group; and (d) concurrently (i) performing the write operat...