ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,728, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"NAND fast cyclic redundancy check" was invented by Tianyu Tang (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to a method of detecting errors in programming data. The method includes receiving a frame of encoded data, and performing a pre-calculation operation on the encoded data. The pre-calculation operation includes passing the frame of encoded data through an error detection circuit comprising eight error flag implementation circuits comprising a plurality of two-input XOR logic gates configured to pe...