ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,992, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for protecting data" was invented by Majid Anaraki Nemati (San Diego), Terry M. Grunzke (Boise, Idaho) and Brett K. Dodds (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining one or more encoded symbols for data included within each of a plurality of memory dies of a memory module to define one or more groups of encoded symbols; generating Reed-Solomon parities for each group of encoded symbols; and recovering one or more portions of the data included within each o...