ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,283, issued on July 8, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Serial presence detect reliability" was invented by Aws Shallal (Cary, N.C.) and Chen Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A serial presence detect (SPD) device includes nonvolatile memory to store SPD information. Parity information suitable for single error correct and double error detect (SEC-DED) is also stored in association with the SPD information in the nonvolatile memory. The combination of SPD information and parity information is organized into codewords addressable at each memory location. During an initialization period occurring aft...