US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 1 for "Thermal aware predictive failure analysis" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,656, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Thermal aware predictive failure analysis" was invented by Vinayak Risbud (Bangalore, India), Karthik D M (Davangere, India) and Amarnath C (Kolar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) techniques that are thermal aware can enable the prevention of uncorrectable errors without premature replacement of memory resources with redundant memory resources. In one example, a management controller (such as Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)) can monitor the rate of corrected errors. When the BMC detects that there are too many corr...