ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,521, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Generating a protected and balanced codeword" was invented by Christophe Vincent Antoine Laurent (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for generating a balanced codeword protected by an error correction code are described. A memory device receives data bits for storage. Based on the data bits, the memory device generates a codeword that includes the data bits, parity bits, and placeholder bits. The memory device balances the codeword by inverting one or more packets of the codeword. After balancing the codeword,...