US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Collaborative hardware-software technique for increasing resilience to bit-flips" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,843, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Collaborative hardware-software technique for increasing resilience to bit-flips" was invented by Nathan Yong Seng Chong (Ponte Vedra, Fla.), Dominic Phillip Mulligan (Cambridge, Great Britain), Karimallah Ahmed Mohammed Raslan (Leander, Texas) and Hanno Becker (Comberton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory management unit (MMU) of a computing device obtains an indication that an algorithm is being used by a program to generate, for storage within a first subset of bits of an entry of an address translation data structure, a value generate...