ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,109, issued on July 29, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Integration of compression algorithms with error correction codes" was invented by Thomas Vogelsang (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Alexander Hamburg ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Evan Lawrence Erickson (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques that detect and correct failure of data storage and communication operations, including obtaining a first plurality of values, selecting a first plurality of error correction values to generate a first codeword, wherein the first codeword is ass...