US Patent Issued to Radian Memory Systems on May 6 for "Erasure coding techniques for flash memory" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,792, issued on May 6, was assigned to Radian Memory Systems LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Erasure coding techniques for flash memory" was invented by Robert Lercari (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Craig Robertson (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Mike Jadon (Manhattan Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a memory controller for asymmetric non-volatile memory, such as flash memory, and related host and memory system architectures. The memory controller is configured to automatically generate and transmit redundancy information to a destination, e.g., a host or another memory drive, to provide for cross-drive redundancy. This ...