US Patent Issued to Rambus on June 30 for "Determining integrity-driven error types in memory buffer devices" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,247, issued on June 30, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Determining integrity-driven error types in memory buffer devices" was invented by Evan Lawrence Erickson (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Helena Handschuh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael Alexander Hamburg ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands), Mark Evan Marson (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Michael Raymond Miller (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for detecting an error using a message authentication code (MAC) associated with cache line data and differentiating the error as having been caused by an attack on memory or a MAC verification failure caused by an ECC esc...