US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 27 for "Heterogenous interleaved Reed-Solomon (HetIRS) with erasure decoding" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,065, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Heterogenous interleaved Reed-Solomon (HetIRS) with erasure decoding" was invented by Joseph M. Mccrate (Boise, Idaho), Kirthi Shenoy (Boise, Idaho), Marco Sforzin (Boise, Idaho) and Brian M. Twait (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a memory system comprising a plurality of memory components. The ECC decoding is configured to construct first and second codewords from a single set of data within the plurality of memory components and perform error correction code (ECC) decoding on the first and second codewords received read from the ...