ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,500, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Memory system with error detection" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller generates error codes associates with write data and a write address and provides the error codes over a dedicated error detection code link to a memory device during a write operation. The memory device performs error detection, and in some cases correction, on the received write data and write address based on the error codes. If no uncorrectable errors are detected, the mem...