ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,612, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device with write error protection" was invented by Christopher Haywood (Fernandina Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for providing write protection to an integrated circuit memory device are described. The integrated circuit memory device has an input port to receive write data and command data and a read data output port to send read data. A device includes a write protection mechanism to prevent write data from being written to a memory core. The write protection mechanism can mask the write data or abor...