US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 14 for "ML assisted dynamic decoding gear selection" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,439, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"ML assisted dynamic decoding gear selection" was invented by Eran Sharon (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Ran Zamir (Ramat Gan, Israel), Omer Fainzilber (Herzeliya, Israel) and Idan Alrod (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-gear ECC decoder includes a high power decoder and a low power decoder. In order to significantly reduce the decoding time for high-BER codewords using a slow high power decoder, rather than decoding codewords in either slow high power or fast low power, a controller switches between slow high power decoding and fas...