ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,164, issued on June 3, was assigned to Astera Labs Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Capacity-expanding memory control component" was invented by Enrique Musoll (San Jose, Calif.), Anh T. Tran (Elk Grove, Calif.), Subbarao Arumilli (Cupertino, Calif.) and Chi Feng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory control component encodes over-capacity data into an error correction code generated for and stored in association with an application data block, inferentially recovering the over-capacity data during application data block read-back by comparing error syndromes generated in detection/correction operations for respective ...