ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,554, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).
"EEPROM emulation method" was invented by Jawad Benhammadi (Pont de Claix, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "EEPROM emulation is provided in a phase-change memory of a circuit integrating a microprocessor. A granularity for writing into lines of the phase-change memory is defined according to a size of data packets to be written. A first error correction code calculated by a program executed by said microprocessor is associated with each data packet. Several data packets and their associated first error correction codes are then stored in a sa...