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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2024
Applicant:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Inventors:
Sujeet Ayyapureddi, Boise, ID (US);
Scott E. Smith, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G06F 11/1435 (2013.01); G06F 13/1673 (2013.01);
Abstract
A bank of a memory device is divided into column planes. Each column plane is associated with column selects. A portion of a column plane associated with one column select used to store metadata associated with data of the remaining column selects. Both the metadata and the data are provided to an error correction code circuit as a combined code word that provides error correction for both the data and the metadata.