ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,982, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Page offlining based on fault-aware prediction of imminent memory error" was invented by Shen Zhou (Shanghai), Xiaoming Du (Shanghai), Cong Li (Shanghai) and Kuljit S. Bains (Olympia, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can predict what pages of memory the system should offline based on identification of how correctable error patterns correlate to the memory architecture. The failure prediction can account for the circuit-level architecture of the memory rather than the mere number or frequency of correctable errors. A controller correlates the hard...