ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,943, issued on June 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Volatile memory data recovery based on independent processing unit data access" was invented by Karthik Kumar (Chandler, Ariz.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Alexander Bachmutsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Susanne M. Balle (Hudson, N.H.), Andrzej Kuriata (Gdansk, Poland) and Nagabhushan Chitlur (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a server system, a host computing platform can have a processing unit separate from the host processor to detect and respond to failure of the host processor. The host computing platform includes a memory to store...