US Patent Issued to ARM on June 30 for "Memory error checking in data processing systems" (British, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,063, issued on June 30, was assigned to ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Memory error checking in data processing systems" was invented by Daren Croxford (Swaffham Prior, Great Britain), Jussi Tuomas Pennala (Lund, Sweden), Philip Malcolm Done (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Mark Stephen Bellamy (Haverhill, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is memory access logic that is operable to perform different accesses to a particular memory element depending on whether or not a memory error checking scheme is being implemented for the memory element. A set of error checking bits are stored in the memory element for im...