ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,346, issued on May 27, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Error processing and correction of adjacent 2-bit errors" was invented by Jens Rosenbusch (Munich), Klaus Oberlander (Neubiberg, Germany), Georg Duchrau (Preddohl, Germany) and Michael Goessel (Mahlow, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "What is proposed is a solution for processing errors in a sequence of bits, wherein the sequence of bits, in the error-free case, forms a codeword of an error code, wherein the error code is based on an H-matrix or is able to be determined thereby, wherein an error syndrome is determined for the sequence of bits...