US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Optimized decoding scheduling in a joint LDPC and RAID decoding scheme" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,609, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Optimized decoding scheduling in a joint LDPC and RAID decoding scheme" was invented by Eran Sharon (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes an error correction code (ECC) ordering system that determines a decoding schedule in which two or more flash memory units (FMUs) that have failed an initial decoding process are to be decoded using a joint decoding scheme. The ECC ordering system generates the decoding schedule based on a metric associated with each FMU. The me...