US Patent Issued to Yellowbrick Data on March 25 for "System and method for checking data to be processed or stored" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,840, issued on March 25, was assigned to Yellowbrick Data Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for checking data to be processed or stored" was invented by Jim Peterson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method checks packetized data retrieved from a bus that is ordinarily considered reliable that was already error checked and/or corrected before being placed on the bus by applying a hash or checksum or other function to each packet to produce a packet checksum and then applying another function to the ordered packet checksums and comparing the result to one sent by the device that checked and/...