US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Feb. 4 for "Page retirement techniques for multi-page DRAM faults" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,539, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Page retirement techniques for multi-page DRAM faults" was invented by Sudhanva Gurumurthi (Austin, Texas), Vilas Sridharan (Boston) and Majed Valad Beigi (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system employs techniques for enhancing dynamic random access memory (DRAM) page retirement to facilitate identification and retirement of pages affected by multi-page DRAM faults. In response to detecting an uncorrectable error at a first page of DRAM, the processing system identifies a second page of the DRAM for potential retire...