ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,189, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Single-bit memory error detection" was invented by Craig Chaiken (Pflugerville, Texas), Shiven Pandya (Austin, Texas) and Paul Jimenez (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system analyzes data associated with a failure of an information handling system by evaluating memory addresses found in memory, such as bug check parameters, context register values, or stacks in a memory dump, at the time of a fatal error to determine whether one of the memory addresses has a single-bit error, and modifying a first memory address with the single-bit error ...