ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,980, issued on July 14, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Self-repair memory techniques" was invented by Edward Martin McCombs Jr. (Austin, Texas), Cyrille Nicolas Dray (Antibes, France) and Nicolaas Klarinus Johannes Van Winkelhoff (Roquefort-les-pins, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations described herein are directed to a method that tests and repairs memory fabricated on a wafer or a package. The method may generate and store a reuse table based on memory repair results. The method may manufacture the memory after repairing the memory. The method may access and reuse data stored in the ...