ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,042, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Detection of data corruption in memory address decode circuitry" was invented by Sreenivas Mandava (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jing Ling (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller including memory address decode circuitry that detects silent data errors that occur in the memory address decode circuitry during runtime is provided. The memory address decode circuitry includes address decode circuitry to covert a received physical address to a memory address, reverse address decode circuitry to convert the memory address to a second physi...