ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,847, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adaptive internal error scrubbing and error handling" was invented by Kuljit S. Bains (Olympia, Wash.), Kjersten E. Criss (Portland, Ore.), Rajat Agarwal (Portland, Ore.), Omar Avelar Suarez (Zapopan, Mexico), Subhankar Panda (Portland, Ore.), Theodros Yigzaw (Sherwood, Ore.), Rebecca Z. Loop (Portland, Ore.), John G. Holm (Beaverton, Ore.) and Gaurav Porwal (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory subsystem with error checking and scrubbing (ECS) logic on-device on the memory can adapt the rate of ECS operations in response to detection of err...