ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,518, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Error correction using on-die parity bit storage and transitional signals" was invented by Majid Anaraki Nemati (San Diego), Terry M. Grunzke (Boise, Idaho) and Brett Dodds (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology provides a multi-level error correction method, including encoding data received from a double data rate (DDR) memory by performing primary coding to generate transitional symbols, wherein the primary coding comprising at least one of cyclical redundancy check (CRC) encoding and single error correction do...