US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 9 for "Fast combined chase and GMD decoding of generalized Reed-Solomon codes" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,252, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Fast combined chase and GMD decoding of generalized Reed-Solomon codes" was invented by Yaron Shany (Kfar Saba, Israel), Ariel Doubchak (Herzliya, Israel), Idan Dekel (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Amit Berman (Binyamina, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for soft decoding of generalized Reed-Solomon (RS) error correction codes, includes receiving a codeword through a digital electronic communication channel; verifying that an HD error-and-erasures decoding has failed; finding a Groebner basis that accounts for a fixed set of erasures...