ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,845, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Systems and methods for multi-use error correcting codes" was invented by Lakshminarasimhan Sethumadhavan (New York) and Evgeny Manzhosov (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, circuits. and other implementations, including a method for error identification and correction that includes obtaining from a memory device coded input data, the coded input data previously encoded by multiplying a source data element by a pre-determined multiplier, and stored in the memory device, and per...