ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,345, issued on May 27, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for operating low-density parity-check bit-flipping decoder" was invented by Zion Kwok (Burnaby, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a low-density parity-check (LDPC) bit-flipping decoder are disclosed herein. An LDPC codeword is received, and each bit in the LDPC codeword is classified as either a high-confidence bit or a low-confidence bit based on at least one criterion. The LDPC codeword is iteratively processed over a plurality of iterations based on parity check equation...