ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,282, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Memory defect management" was invented by Ravi Kumar Siadri (Visakhapatnam, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for implementing improved memory defect management. Bad pages, referring to portions of memory affected by memory errors, are identified by an operating system ("OS") of a computing system. A list of bad pages may be periodically uploaded to a cloud data storage. The OS may also send the list of bad pages to a basic input/output system ("BIOS") for repair of some of the bad pages. A list of repai...