ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,135, issued on Aug. 11.

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for error correction" was invented by Yoshinori Fujiwara (Boise, Idaho), Vivek Kotti (Boise, Idaho), Christopher G. Wieduwilt (Boise, Idaho), Jason M. Johnson (Nampa, Idaho) and Kevin G. Werhane (Nampa, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for error correction. A memory device may have a number of memory cells each of which stores a bit of information. One or more error correction code (ECC) may be used to determine if the bits of information contain any errors. To mitigate the effects of failures of adjacent memory cells, the information may...