ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,713, issued on May 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Compiler support 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 determination is made that a program defines a plurality of variants for populating a data structure. Respective values for the variants are selected such that the number of bit-flips required to transform one variant to another exceeds a threshold. In response to a detec...