ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,777, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Uncorrectable memory error prediction" was invented by Shen Zhou (Shanghai), Xiaoming Du (Shanghai), Cong Li (Shanghai), Kuljit S. Bains (Olympia, Wash.), Rajat Agarwal (Portland, Ore.), Murugasamy K. Nachimuthu (Beaverton, Ore.), Maciej Lawniczak (Gdansk, Poland), Chao Yan Tang (Shanghai) and Mariusz Oriol (Gdynia, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can predict memory device failure through identification of correctable error patterns based on the memory architecture. The failure prediction can thus account for the circuit-level of the memory r...