ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,546, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Processing system, related integrated circuit, device and method" was invented by Federico Goller (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slave provides second data bits and ECC bits in response to a master read request. First data bits are generated by selecting between the second data bits and third data bits produced from error correcting the second data bits. The third data bits are generated with a delay of one clock cycle with respect to the second data bits. If an address of the read request is stored to a memory, a control signa...