US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Jan. 28 for "Method and system for fast column processing for highly irregular LDPC codes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,336, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method and system for fast column processing for highly irregular LDPC codes" was invented by Fan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Haobo Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Meysam Asadi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decoding method and memory system which group bits in irregular LDPC codes having similar degrees of convergence into respective degree groups, classify the degree groups according to a metric indicative of a number of decoding iterations for convergence, divide a time period for convergence of the decoding iterations into different zones...