ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,109, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Memory validation" was invented by Sabareeshkumar Ravikumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shishuang Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Feng Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Ji Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method of testing an electrical device comprises transmitting a data pattern to a memory device of the electrical device by a controller of the electrical device to provide a written data pattern to the memory device, wherein the data pattern replicates a resonant frequency of at least a portion of the electrical device, reading the written ...