US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Feb. 4 for "Error correction with fast syndrome calculation" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,688, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Error correction with fast syndrome calculation" was invented by Rainer Gottfert (Putzbrunn, Germany), Wieland Fischer (Munich), Berndt Gammel (Markt Schwaben, Germany) and Martin Schlaffer (Zell am See, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Error correction is proposed, wherein, on the basis of a data word, a syndrome calculation is carried out with a matrix M on the basis of a matrix H of a code, and, if the result of the syndrome calculation reveals that the data word is erroneous, the result of the syndrome calculation is transformed by means o...