US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 17 for "Efficient memory use to support soft information in bit flipping decoders" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,743, issued on June 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Efficient memory use to support soft information in bit flipping decoders" was invented by Mustafa N. Kaynak (San Diego), Eyal En Gad (Highland, Calif.), Zhengang Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Sivagnanam Parthasarathy (Carlsbad, Calif.), Phong Sy Nguyen (Livermore, Calif.) and Dung V. Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes performing a read operation of a first codeword including first hard data and generating an error vector using a reliability metric of the first hard data. The first hard data and error vector are stored in...