ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,342, issued on March 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Fast memory ECC error correction" was invented by Jing Ling (Milpitas, Calif.), Wei P. Chen (Portland, Ore.) and Rajat Agarwal (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller having an error checking and correction (ECC) circuitry can detect an error in data being read from memory and correct that error with a retry flow without needing to send another read to the memory for the data. The read data is stored in a read data buffer (RDB) at the memory controller when the read data is received from memory. The memory controller has an error de...