ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,252, issued on May 13, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Check node data compression in memory systems" was invented by Zion Kwok (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to compressing check node data for an electronic device. The electronic device identifies a check node corresponding to a subset of codeword symbols in a block of data and determines check node data that indicates a likelihood of the subset of codeword symbols being erroneous. A set of data bits are determined based on a value combination of data items of the check node data to unique...