ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,678, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Runtime memory repair without requiring a reboot of a server computer" was invented by Robert Charles Swanson (Olympia, Wash.), Maulik Kapuria (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tsung Ho Wu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sang Phill Park (Sammamish, Wash.), Pankaj Kumar Rai (San Jose, Calif.), Yuhui Zheng (Seattle), Nandagopal Sathyanarayanan (Renton, Wash.) and Filippo Sironi (Dresden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host server computer with an uncorrectable memory error can be repaired without a reboot operation. While initially booting a hypervisor, a special software ...