ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,530, issued on June 24, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Check node updates in bit flipping decoders" was invented by Zion Kwok (Burnaby, Canada) and Young Joon Ji (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to error correction for data stored in a memory device. In response to a request to validate a block of data, the memory device identifies a set of check nodes corresponding to a set of variable nodes that represent the block of data. First check node values of the check nodes are determined based on the block of data, and stored in first registers...