ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,612, issued on April 7, was assigned to Astera Labs Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Virtual metadata storage with decode-alias mitigation" was invented by Jitendra Mohan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Justina Provine (Fremont, Calif.), Anh T. Tran (Elk Grove, Calif.), Ken (Keqin) Han (Fremont, Calif.) and Enrique Musoll (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit component receives a data block and corresponding error correction code from one or more external memory components in a memory read operation and then executes error detection/correction operations with respect to a plurality of input data volumes to generate a...