ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,994, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD (Singapore).
"Decoder-assisted LLR calculation" was invented by Nirmal Shende (Manteca, Calif.) and Nedeljko Varnica (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding data in a memory device includes attempting to decode, using a first decoder, initial bits based on original data read from memory, determining that the first decoding was not successful, and, in response to determining that the first decoding was not successful, attempting to decode, using a second decoder, the initial bits based on the original data and information derived during the fir...