US Patent Issued to Rambus on April 29 for "Memory device and repair method with column-based error code tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,705, issued on April 29, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory device and repair method with column-based error code tracking" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Brent Steven Haukness (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device is disclosed that includes a row of storage locations that form plural columns. The plural columns include data columns to store data and a tag column to store tag information associated with error locations in the data columns. Each data column is associated with an error correction location including an error code bit location. Logic retriev...