ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,982, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for runtime recovery of processor links" was invented by Shijie Liu (Shanghai), Tao Xu (Shanghai), Lei Zhu (Shanghai) and Kevin Yufu Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that perform runtime recovery of processor links. An example non-transitory computer readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, causes a machine to at least determine an onset of an error based on health of a central processor unit (CPU) port, calculate a figure of merit (FOM) yi...