ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,517, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Semiconductor memory device" was invented by Tetsuro Takizawa (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of banks, a sense amplifier, an ECC code generation unit, an error correction unit, a first bus, and a second bus. The banks include a data recording unit in which rewritten data is to be written, and an ECC code recording unit in which an error correction code corresponding to the rewritten data is to be written. The sense amp...