US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "Decoding metadata encoded in error correction codes" (California, North Carolina, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,623, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Decoding metadata encoded in error correction codes" was invented by Srikanth Dakshinamoorthy (Portland, Ore.), Majid Anaraki Nemati (San Diego), Perry Willmann Remaklus Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.) and Ravinder Kumar (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for encoding and decoding metadata in error correction codes. During read operation, a decoder generates a first output corresponding to the at least one metadata bit having a first state and a second output corresponding to the ...