ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,811, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Error type indication" was invented by Steffen Buch (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for error type indication are described. A memory device may detect an error while performing an error detection procedure for a codeword. The memory device may transmit to a host device one or more bits, which may be one or more error flags, that indicate the type of error detected by the memory device. By transmitting the one or more bits to a requesting device, for example a host device, the memory device may indicate the detected pres...