ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,272, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"RAS offload PPR request system" was invented by Ching-Lung Chao (Austin, Texas), Shih-Hao Wang (Austin, Texas) and Po-Yu Cheng (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) offload Post-Package Repair (PPR) request system includes a memory system coupled to a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) device and a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) subsystem. The BMC device identifies an error in the memory system, retrieves error information associated with the error, uses the error information to generate a ...