US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Nov. 11 for "Polar codes for error correction in non-volatile memory devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,232, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Polar codes for error correction in non-volatile memory devices" was invented by Chin-Jen Pang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Nedeljko Varnica (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid state drive (SSD) device includes a memory having a plurality of memory cells and an encoder configured to encode information using a polar code to generate encoded information to be stored in the memory. The polar code is constructed based on a plurality of channel models corresponding to different read channel scenarios, including at least a first channel model corre...