US Patent Issued to Rambus on July 21 for "Variable width memory module supporting enhanced error detection and correction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,884, issued on July 21, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Variable width memory module supporting enhanced error detection and correction" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Kenneth L. Wright (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are memory modules that support different error detection and correction (EDC) schemes in both single- and multiple-module memory systems. The memory modules are width configurable and support the different EDC schemes for relatively wide and narrow module data widths. Data buffers on the modules support...