ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,598, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Decoder for burst correction read 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 that (i) receives parallel input of a set of syndrome polynomial products corresponding to a set of ECC words and (ii) produces corresponding sets of polynomial roots therefrom and a sequence detector that identifies sequences within each of the polynomial roo...