ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,848, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Memory error detection" was invented by Ian Shaeffer (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Craig E. Hampel (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for detecting and correcting address errors in a memory system. In the memory system, a memory device generates an error-detection code based on an address transmitted via an address bus and transmits the error-detection code to a memory controller. The memory controller transmits an error indication to the memory device in response to the error-detection code. The error indication causes t...