Board of Trustees of University of Alabama Assigned Patent

Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL, has been assigned a patent (11728000) developed by Ray, Biswajit, Madison, AL, Surendranathan, Umeshwarnath, Kumari, Preeti, and Raquibuzzaman, Md, Huntsville, AL, for “systems and methods for detecting counterfeit or defective memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system for testing memory includes logic that is configured to perform various normal memory operations (e.g., erase, read and write operations) on a memory device and to determine operational parameters associated with the memory operations. As an example, the amount of time to perform one or more memory operations may be measured, a number of errors resulting from the memory operations may be determined, or a number of memory cells storing noisy bits may be identified. One or more of the operational parameters may then be analyzed to determine whether they are in a range expected for counterfeit or defective memory. If so, the logic determines that the memory under test is counterfeit or defective and provides a notification about such determination.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-05-13 (17/319611).