US Patent Issued on June 24 for "Soft read operations with progressive data output" (California, Oregon, Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,742, issued on June 24.

"Soft read operations with progressive data output" was invented by Ali Khakifirooz (Brookline, Mass.), George Kalwitz (Mead, Colo.), Anand Ramalingam (Portland, Ore.), Ravi Motwani (Fremont, Calif.) and Renjie Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for memory controller technology including first logic to trigger, via an initial request, a hard-read and a soft-read, wherein the hard-read is to generate hard-bit information and the soft-read is to generate first soft-bit information and second soft-bit information, conduct a first error correction ...