ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,741, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Low overhead error correction code" was invented by Joshua B. Fryman (Corvallis, Ore.), Byoungchan Oh (Portland, Ore.), Jason Howard (Portland, Ore.) and Sai Dheeraj Polagani (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory requests are protected by encoding memory requests to include error correction codes. A subset of bits in a memory request are compared to a pre-defined pattern to determine whether the subset of bits matches a pre-defined pattern, where a match indicates that a compression can be applied to the memory request. The error correction c...