ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,773, issued on July 8, was assigned to Siemens Mobility GmbH (Munich).

"Method for computer-assisted operation of a memory unit and execution of application programs having redundant data storage" was invented by Andreas Schallenberg (Peine, Germany), Markus Seemann (Braunschweig, Germany) and Stefan Gerken (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for computer-assisted operation of a memory unit, data is saved in the memory unit and the data is encoded before saving, or data is retrieved from the memory unit and the data is decoded after retrieval. For first-time encoding of the data, at least one group of app...