US Patent Issued to Intel on June 3 for "Deferred ECC (error checking and correction) memory initialization by memory scrub hardware" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,622, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deferred ECC (error checking and correction) memory initialization by memory scrub hardware" was invented by Sreenivas Mandava (Los Altos, Calif.) and John V. Lovelace (Driftwood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Initialization of a memory can have different phases, first initializing a portion of memory for BIOS (basic input/output system) and initializing other portions of memory while the BIOS is operating. The initialization of the memory can be performed by the error scrub engine. In a first mode of operation, the scrub engine can initialize memory loc...