US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 3 for "Burst correction reed solomon decoding for memory applications" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,229, issued on June 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Burst correction reed solomon decoding for memory applications" 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 an apparatus comprising a search engine configured to (i) receive parallel input of a set of syndrome polynomial products corresponding to a set of ECC words and (ii) produce corresponding sets of polynomial roots therefrom and a sequence detector configured to identify sequences within each of the polynomial roo...