ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,480, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Detecting hardware errors" was invented by Tom Kolan (Haifa, Israel), Adi Habusha (Alonei Abba, Israel), Nicolas Worms (Haifa, Israel) and Ilan Wachtel (Mazkeret Batya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hardware errors can be detected by generating a plurality of test templates to perform testing on an integrated circuit (IC) device. A set of random tests can be generated corresponding to the plurality of test templates. The set of random tests can be executed on the IC device for multiple passes, and the results of the multiple passes can be compared ...