ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,234, issued on June 3, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Energy efficient storage of error-correction-detection information" was invented by Michael Raymond Miller (Raleigh, N.C.), Stephen Magee (Apex, N.C.) and John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data and error correction information may involve accessing multiple data channels (e.g., 8) and one error detection and correction channel concurrently. This technique requires a total of N+1 row requests for each access, where N is the number of data channels (e.g., 8 data row accesses and 1 error detection and correction row access equals 9 ...