ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,948, issued on April 7, was assigned to Frontgrade Gaisler AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Data validation and correction using hybrid parity and error correcting codes" was invented by Magnus Hjorth (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to protecting a data item by storing data bits with integrity bits. The data bits are assigned into a second number of data sets. Data bits of each data set are combined to determine a third number of respective coding bits based on a respective coding pattern. The integrity bits include a set of single-bit error correcting (SEC) code bits and a set of parity bits....