Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Assigned Patent

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, has been assigned a patent (12057858) developed by Burg; Andreas, Ecublens, Switzerland, and Ghanaatian; Reza, Renens, Switzerland, for “method for reading and writing unreliable memories and a corresponding memory controller device and memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of accessing a memory space of a memory device with a decoder, the memory space having faults, including the steps of performing a memory access operation by an electronic device to a access a logical memory space of the memory device, and randomizing the memory access operation with a randomization logic to access data from a physical memory space based on the logical memory space, the randomization logic providing time varying behavior for accessing the physical memory space.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-09-23 (17/482594).