US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 1 for "Data storage device with efficient decoder pool and method for on-the-fly decoder initialization" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,245, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device with efficient decoder pool and method for on-the-fly decoder initialization" was invented by Eran Sharon (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Ran Zamir (Ramat Gan, Israel), Yoav Porat (Lehavim, Israel) and Yan Dumchin (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shared decoder pool is susceptible to head-of-line blocking when the decoding of a given data block delays the decoding of other data blocks pipelined in the decoder. While the problem can be avoided by not using a pipeline operation, the benefits of pipelining would be lost....